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Congress once fought to limit a president’s war powers − more than 50 years later, its successors are less willing to assert their authority

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But there was a time when Americans saw Congress stand up to a president who unilaterally took the country to war. It was at the ...
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Supreme Court rejects Trump tariffs, stressing powers of Congress

President Trump points at reporters during a White House news conference Friday after the Supreme Court's tariff ruling. (Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images) The Supreme Court ruled Friday that ...
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Comment: Decades of presidents ignored Congress, War Powers Act

When you bomb a country and take out its leader, that’s an act of war. Under the Constitution, Congress must declare war or otherwise authorize the use of force before the president may take such ...
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Congress once fought to limit a president’s war powers − more than 50 years later, its successors are less willing to assert their authority

Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, not the president. But most modern presidents and their legal counsel have asserted that Article 2 of the Constitution ...