Isn't the IWR clearly unconstitutional? Why has nobody challenged it in

[karlrschneider]

Federal court? I'm sure this question has been asked but I don't remember ever seeing a rational answer.
:eyes:

edit: Iraq War Resolution....sorry

[silverweb]

1. What's the IWR?

:shrug:

[shraby]

2. Iraq War Resolution.

[silverweb]

3. Oh.

Thanks!

:hi:

When acronyms are used without any context, I'm often quickly lost. :D

[funflower]

4. Presidential war powers is a rather unsettled area of Constitutional law,

I think. For a half-century, presidents have pretty much chosen to do what they want to and dared Congress to stop them.

I don't think right now would be the best time to try for a ruling from the SCOTUS on that.

[karlrschneider]

7. You're right of course but dammit someone has to -try-....

:grr:

[funflower]

10. I'd worry about what this Court would do on that subject.

Let's see how they handle the Guantanamo gulag....

[Silverhair]

5. And what court would rule on that?

SCOTUS, right. The same SCOTUS that installed W in 2000, and is now even further right, is going to declare the IWR unconstitutional?

Tell me what you have been drinking.

[karlrschneider]

8. Crown Royal.

:D

Remember the same court killed the TX sodomy laws. Impossible to know what they would do in any given case.

[babylonsister]

6. Dems have to admit they were duped before they

challenge anything. Then a dialogue can begin.

[funflower]

11. Duped my eye. Dems were complicit - at least a lot of them.

[babylonsister]

12. If Colin Powell insinuates he was duped, I think it

happened to many people on both sides of the aisle. It would be nice to know the truth either way.

[funflower]

13. Well, I wasn't duped. I could see it from 3,000 miles. Hard to believe

these career inside-the-beltwayers really believed that pack of lies. It seems to me they went along to get along and now they're jumping ship like rats on the Titanic. Seems to me that most of them are doing whatever works at the time.....

And I'm not duped by them, either.

:nopity:

[charlie]

9. Clair Callan

A former state congressman has challenged it. SCOTUS refused to hear the case.

http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=%22Clair+Callan%22+war+powers&btnG=Search