“He reflected deeply on the law for almost two decades, through numerous presidencies, as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee; consulted a whole group of constitutional scholars; taught constitutional law classes on the separation of powers; and went on national TV while running for president to declare unilateral executive-branch war-making a high crime! But now that he’s part of an administration openly pondering strikes on Syria without Congressional approval — even as dozens of legislators demand to be consulted — Biden doesn’t have any public objections, and the position he and his constitutional experts once asserted is treated as a naive curiosity in the press.”
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