All posts tagged "The Constitution"

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) put President Donald Trump on notice Friday, saying Congress should decide whether to strike Iran, not him alone.

Raskin told CNN's Boris Sanchez that he was co-sponsoring a war powers resolution, as he always does, "when it looks like military hostilities might begin."

"The Constitution is very clear in Article One that it is Congress which has the power to declare war," Raskin said. "That is the sole and exclusive power of Congress."...

A former legal counsel to President Ronald Reagan says watching Donald Trump in action has changed his perspective of just how much power presidents should be allowed to wield.

In an opinion piece for The Washington Post, Alan Charles Raul, now a lecturer at Harvard Law School, wrote that he once supported "the 'unitary executive' theory — a legal concept that would allow the president to disregard the contours and safeguards that Congress prescribes for the executive branch to follow."

But, Raul admitted, "Unchecked presidential power is not what the Framers had in mind."...

When Barack Obama says that the Constitution was fundamentally flawed when it was written, he actually has a problem with this obscure part of the Constitution - Article 1, §2, Paragraph 3: