The President has 22 days to...

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Take it up with the Founders, who expressly delegated warmaking powers to Congress in the War Powers Clause....

Congress could have also issued letters of marque and reprisal first instead of rushing into a protracted war, but that wasn't even tried....

Clipper Nation sticking up for enumerated powers of Congress in 2012

CN has a lot of hits for "letters of marque and reprisal", Mike Lee and others are bringing this up now presumably in connection with DOD's controversial small craft bombings in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. Earlier this year Erik Prince took credit for seeding the idea in his head

Prince spoke with Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle about a recent post from Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), discussing what Letters of Marque and Reprisal were and how they could be used to weaken the drug cartels. Prince admitted that he had “helped put this idea in Senator Lee’s head.”


“Letters of marque and reprisal are government-issued commissions that authorize private citizens (privateers) to perform acts that would otherwise be considered piracy, like attacking enemy ships during wartime Privateers are rewarded with a cut of the loot they ‘bring home,'” Lee explained in his post.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...-drug-cartels/

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(I wonder who gets to keep the drugs)

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lol Trumplandia trying to take the law of the sea back to the 18th century, legally speaking