Last Friday I speculated on why Legal Advisor Harold Koh, a leading academic critic of presidential war unilateralism, supported President Obama’s constitutional arguments for the Libya intervention, as ...

The Anti-Libya Bill the House of Representatives will consider is here.  The Bill would cut off all funds for the Libya intervention except for specified support operations.  Unlike the Resolution floate...

I realize that the two Libya Resolutions being considered in the House are more for political than legal effect, but the Resolution that seeks to check the President's Libya intervention is an especially...

Lawfare readers may be interested in reading the two competing resolutions under consideration in the House this week. The first is a resolution requiring the President to withdraw U.S. forces from comb...

The invaluable Steve Aftergood, over at Secrecy News, is reporting: Attorneys for New York Times reporter James Risen yesterday asked a court to quash a subpoena requiring him to testify in the case of f...

Senators Kerry and McCain, and eight other prominent Senators, introduced a Resolution on Libya today.  The Resolution authorizes the President “to continue the limited use of the United States Armed For...

President Obama is in a legal and political pickle concerning his unilateral intervention in Libya.  The mission is much harder than he anticipated, and it has taken much longer (months, not days) than h...

Charlie Savage reports this morning:  “Since the United States handed control of the air war in Libya to NATO in early April, American warplanes have struck at Libyan air defenses about 60 times, and rem...

I've written a relatively brief primer on the application of the War Powers Resolution "clock" to Operation Unified Protector (i.e., the war in Libya), and have posted it at Brookings.  After detailed co...

The Senate Armed Services Committee announced Friday that it had completed its markup of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2012.

Charlie Savage has the amazing story that President Obama “rejected the views of top lawyers at the Pentagon and the Justice Department when he decided that he had the legal authority to continue America...

Rick Pildes has a very thoughtful post at Balkinization on the constitutional politics of the War Powers Resolution, the difficulties Congress faces in responsibly controlling executive discretion to mak...