Would the War Powers Act hold up in the Supreme Court? - Page 2

RnderSafe · June 11th, 2004

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Originally Posted by Damien435

Sorry, see I was not very old during Kosovo so I do not remember anything from it, this must be a mute point then, I believe our troops stayed over anyways, right? So that means that the president would have already defyed the WPR and nothing happened.

That is correct, but Clinton was not the first. Ford was.

Damien435 · June 12th, 2004

I am not real aware of any uses of the WPR against the president in the past, my US History teacher thinks it is a joke and that it will last minutes in the supreme court before being tossed out. He views it as an effort by Congress to gain more power over the president, while also hopefully decreasing the number of deaths of US Service Men overseas.

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June 12th, 2004
Damien435	I am not real aware of any uses of the WPR against the president in the past, my US History teacher thinks it is a joke and that it will last minutes in the supreme court before being tossed out. He views it as an effort by Congress to gain more power over the president, while also hopefully decreasing the number of deaths of US Service Men overseas.