Obama's big new resolution on ISIS is really about limiting presidential power

Posted on AllSides February 12th, 2015
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President Obama sent a draft Authorization for the Use of Military Force to Congress on Wednesday afternoon, seeking a vote on the formal legal authorization of a limited military campaign against ISIS. It's a move that's roiling Capitol Hill and leaving many of his co-partisans a bit puzzled. As one aide to a backbench Democrat put it to me, "why is he doing this?"

After all, in an exclusive interview with Vox published earlier this week, Obama observed that "I have the authority as commander-in-chief to send back 200,000 Americans...

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