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Air Strikes on Libya and Presidential “Authority” Air Strikes on Libya and Presidential “Authority”
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Congressional Assertions of War Powers and “Noise about the Process” Congressional Assertions of War Powers and “Noise about the Process”
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Explaining Congress’s Institutional Deference Explaining Congress’s Institutional Deference
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Presidential Leadership, Congressional Deference, and Its Implications Presidential Leadership, Congressional Deference, and Its Implications
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4 Obama’s Military Strikes on Libya
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Published:May 2015
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Abstract
The U.S. and NATO use of force in Libya in 2011 was the first new war for President Obama (distinguished from the two wars he inherited from George W. Bush). In his effort to justify presidential insulation from congressional oversight during the strikes, Obama advanced a novel legal argument on the War Powers Resolution that proved to be controversial to many members of Congress. This use of force is intriguing given that a number of substantive political and legal congressional challenges were advanced against the commander in chief at this time. The House and Senate leadership of both parties generally discouraged, co-opted, or simply opposed these legislative war powers challenges, however, which worked to keep Congress’s constitutional and political responsibility for the strikes limited and tertiary. Speaker of the House John Boehner (R–Ohio) played a critical role in this process of curtailing significant constitutional challenges to the commander in chief and instead continued the practice of congressional deference to the president during military conflicts.
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