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Presidents still have insanely-extensive authority granted by the AUMF from the original batch of "Global War on Terror" (barf) bills.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Milit...

Remember when a bunch of people were complaining that tons of that legislation was dangerous crap that handed way too much power to the executive? Yeah, they were 100% right.



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