Washington (CNN) -- President Obama may be on the brink of breaking the law.
At issue: The 1973 War Powers Act, which says if the president does not get congressional authorization 60 days after military action, the mission must stop within 30 days.
The president formally notified Congress about the mission in Libya with a letter on March 21, which makes Friday the 60-day deadline.
Inaction is angering lawmakers from both the left and the right who rarely agree on anything.
Rep. Brad Sherman, D-California, tells CNN he believes Obama is trying to "bring democracy to Libya while shredding the Constitution of the United States."
"He cannot continue what he is doing in Libya without congressional authorization. When a president defiantly violates the law, that really undercuts our efforts to urge other countries to have the rule of law," Sherman said.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, concurs.
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7 comments:
Hahaha Obama is ABOVE any law
when is he going to start obeying it they mean. Court orders in the gulf/the state of Arizona/defensive marriage act/the black panther cases. the list goes on. The man believes he is above the law..
He's broken so many laws already and gotten away with it he thinks he's above the law. Maybe he is.
Oh! you forgot Bush and Chaney's administration invasion of the lied told about WMD that caused the death of Saddem Hussein.
Get off the Bush Chaney train. This clown has screwed up this country so bad it will take decades to fix. The Arab nations laugh at him, the voters canhardly wait to 2012 to get him out of office.
"o" is now saying "limited role in lybia is why he doesn't need approval from congress. he will find a way not to follow the law....
The constitution is a joke to Obama. He does what he wants and no one in Washington will stand up to him. Get over it because nobody is going to start impeachment proceeding against him because if they had the nerve to do it, it would have started a long time back. I can't scrol down on this site anymore and it's so slow that I'm getting tired of visiting this site. No other blogs are like this.
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