Was Trump’s Syria Strike Illegal? Explaining Presidential War Powers

Posted on AllSides April 14th, 2018
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President Trump ordered the military on Thursday to carry out a missile attack on Syrian forces for using chemical weapons against civilians. The unilateral attack lacked authorization from Congress or from the United Nations Security Council, raising the question of whether he had legal authority to commit the act of war.

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