Very interesting.  The six-page Statement of Administration Policyrelating to HR 1540, the proposed National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2012, is here.  There are many objections, requests, and veto...

I join Ben in welcoming Marty Lederman back to blogging.  His initial post--parsing both international and domestic legal issues relating to the UBL operation--is typically thorough and insightful (not t...

On Friday, the New York Times published the text of President Obama's letter to Congress, regarding the use of force in Libya.    (Over at Opinio Juris, Peter Spiro has posted a discussion of the letter'...

There is much discussion today about the apparent decision of the Obama Administration to ignore the provision in the War Powers Resolution that requires that the President either terminate the use of mi...

Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey has penned this letter to House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon on the latter's proposed AUMF rewrite.

Adam Serwer responds to my post of last night: I think any objective evaluation of the facts has to conclude that U.S. military operations against al Qaeda outside of Afghanistan and Pakistan represent "...

No sooner had I finished my last post than I came across this elegant little argument from Adam Serwer: I think Wittes is right that the original AUMF contained no . . . temporal or geographic constraints.

I have a fair bit to say in response to Daphne Eviatar's comments from earlier today concerning my post about yesterday's New York Times editorial. Let me start with a brief comment about Daphne's compla...

In yesterday's Washington Post, Professors Bruce Ackerman and Oona Hathaway editorialized about the "Death of the War Powers Act." Their piece is provocative, in part because it suggests that the execut...

Daphne Eviatar of Human Rights First sent in the following in response to my post from yesterday contrasting the New York Times editorial and the Washington Post editorial on Buck McKeon's AUMF proposal.

Anyone who wants to understand in a nutshell the difference between the New York Times editorial board and the Washington Post editorial board on counter-terrorism issues--and, actually, on a broader arr...

Charlie Savage has the goods this morning regarding the administration's potential responses to the looming expiration of the 60-day WPR clock in connection with the war in Libya.  It's a must-read piece...