Government
Sep. 17, 2014
Congress needs to approve ISIS attack
President Barack Obama is legally and politically wrong in not seeking congressional approval for the continued bombing of ISIS.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law
UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
President Barack Obama is legally and politically wrong in not seeking congressional approval for the continued bombing of ISIS. On Sept. 10, Obama, in a nationally televised addressed, pledged that the nation will use its military powers to destroy ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham. The president was clear that this will involve a protracted effort by the United States and its allies against ISIS to prevent its atrocities, and its expansion and consolidation of power. But the...
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