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Posted On: 01/11/2020 12:09:01 PM
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Congress has deep and exclusive mandates on military organization, funding and some management of U.S. military forces. What it does not have is the ability to use military forces. Only the President can use them; he does so as Commander in Chief. He (or she) does not generally need Congressional permission to use the military. In fact, Congress has prohibited some uses; e.g. laws that prohibit the use of the federal military to enforce civilian laws. It also prohibited sending draftees outside the Western Hemisphere in 1940. < >

Article II of the Constitution, Section 2 clearly states “The President shall be the Commander in Chief of the Army and the Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States…” Section 3 of Article II gives the President the authority to “commission all the (military) officers of the United States.”

The Senate has the authority to “advise and consent” to some appointments such as admirals and generals in Article II, Section 2; the President “shall have the power, by and with the consent of the Senate…(to) appoint...all other officers of the United States.”

As outlined here, nowhere in the Constitution is permission, or mandate that states Congress can make war, or order a Seal Team into a foreign country to rescue hostages, assassinate terrorists, kidnap individuals or destroy military targets. The Congress can buy and fuel killing machines like drones and pay people to control them in installations Congress pays for, but it can’t order the drone operator to kill anyone. Nor are there any words that allow Congress to appoint officers of the American military. Only the President can, albeit some appointments must be approved by the U.S. Senate.

Only the President can nominate military officers, even if his name is Trump. Also, only the President can order troops, planes, missiles, drones and aircraft carriers into action, any action. The same is true of foreign policy, an essential factor in the use of the military.

On foreign policy, Article II, Section 2 the President is charged with the exclusive power “to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senate present concur...and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate...shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls…”

In Article I, Section 8, Congress is mandated “to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states…” but is not authorized to regulate anything but “commerce” with foreign nations. Thus, on trade with foreign nations, for example, Congress can apply tariffs, order inspection of foreign goods and allowance of such inspected goods and even quantities of foreign goods but it cannot negotiate a treaty allowing such goods into the U.S.

Only the President can negotiate a treaty but if the treaty allows for quantities, quality, etc. such as the original North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Mexico and Canada, or its successor NAFTA 2 AKA USMCA, Congress must vote for passage or rejection of the agreement on an up or down vote because it regulates commerce. Congress can advise the President to add or deduct provisions of such an agreement but it can’t negotiate it.

The question posed by Speaker Pelosi that Congress needs to be consulted by President Trump for action like the killing of Iranian terrorist Qassem Soleimani is inavlid. Congress-persons have their constitutionally-defined jobs and the President has his.

The question is not new. President Theodore Roosevelt in 1907 sent the Great White Fleet of 16 U.S. Navy battleships on a worldwide show of U.S. naval strength against the public wishes of some Congressmen.

In one story, Roosevelt told Congress he already had the money and for them “to try and get it back.” In another, “Congress had appropriated only half the funds necessary to finance the cruise. Roosevelt sent the ships anyway, saying that if Congress wanted the Navy back, it could provide the rest of the money.”

In this Iran-killing case, Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi should be seen, not heard.


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