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Speaker 1: This is Bloomberg Law with June Grasso from Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Bloomberg Law. I'm Jun Brasso. Ahead in this hour,

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Speaker 1: another show down between the White House and Capitol Hill.

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Speaker 1: As the House votes to limit the president's authority to

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Speaker 1: strike Iran, will Obamacare go back to the Supreme Court

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Speaker 1: for a third time, and Delaware's highest court will assign

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Speaker 1: a case that could affect the by laws or charters

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Speaker 1: of more than a hundred public companies. President Trump's military

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Speaker 1: action against Iran faced a rebuke by the Democratic controlled

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Speaker 1: House today It voted to limit his authority to strike Iran,

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Speaker 1: as tensions in the Middle East remain high after a U.

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Speaker 1: S drone strike killed a top Iranian general. Here's House

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Speaker 1: Arms Services Committee Democratic Chairman Elliott angele, It's not the

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Speaker 1: job of Congress to give any administration. It's blind trust.

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Speaker 1: It's why we have separation of powers. It's why the

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Speaker 1: Constitution and trusts war power wars to Congress. Joining me

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Speaker 1: is own A Hathaway, professor of international law Yale Law

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Speaker 1: School and a former national security lawyer in the Defense

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Speaker 1: Department's Office of General Council explain just what the War

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Speaker 1: Powers Resolution is. The War Powers Resolution is a law

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Speaker 1: that was passed in nineteen seventy three by Congress after

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Speaker 1: it discovered that President Nixon had been running a secret

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Speaker 1: bombing campaign in Cambodia, and the Congress decided that it

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Speaker 1: was important for it to reassert its constitutional role in

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Speaker 1: the decision to make war, and so it passed this law,

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Speaker 1: which requires the President to consult with Congress before using force,

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Speaker 1: to seek its authorization before engaging in any full scale war,

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Speaker 1: US armed forces into hostilities and inform them within four

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Speaker 1: eight hours. So would it apply to this to situation

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Speaker 1: where there's no ground invasions and one military strike against

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Speaker 1: one general. Well, some would say that, look, this is

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Speaker 1: not such a big deal, Like this was one strike,

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Speaker 1: it was relatively small scale. But this strike was not

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Speaker 1: just one strike. It was a strike against the high

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Speaker 1: maybe even civilians. And it was a strike that had

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Speaker 1: the potential to ignite a full scale war with Iran.

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Speaker 1: Luckily it seems for the moment that that hasn't happened,

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Speaker 1: but it certainly did pose that danger. So for the

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Speaker 1: so much as informing Congress really was a pretty clear

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Speaker 1: violation of the War Resolution. So in the past presidents

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Speaker 1: of both parties have argued that it's an unconstitutional infringement

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Speaker 1: statement challenging the resolution, saying it's unnecessary and would lack

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Speaker 1: the force of law. The statement of administration policies and

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Speaker 1: the military actions it would apply to are already authorized

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Speaker 1: under a two thousand to authorization for use of military

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Speaker 1: the two thousand to authorization for use of military force

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Speaker 1: And this president doesn't seem to recognize that. He seems

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Speaker 1: Looking at the strike against ceremony, some administration officials are

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