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Waging War: The Clash Between Presidents and Congress 1776 to ISIS. By David J. Barron. New York, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016. Pp. xiv, 560. Index.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2018

Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash*
Affiliation:
University of Virginia School of Law

Abstract

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References

1 U.S. Const. Art. I, § 8, cl. 12.

2 Id., § 8, cl. 14.

3 Prakash, Saikrishna Bangalore, The Separation and Overlap of War and Military Powers, 87 Tex. L. Rev. 299 (2008)Google Scholar.

4 Id. at 352–53.

5 Id. at 353.

6 Id. at 368.

7 Id. at 353.

8 Id. at 369.

9 Id. at 369, 370, n. 384.

10 Id. at 369.

11 See Prakash, Saikrishna Bangalore, The Imbecilic Executive, 99 Va. L. Rev. 1361, 1388–89 (2013)Google Scholar.

12 Id. at 1419.

13 Id. at 1388.

14 Much of the claims made here draw from Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash, Imperial from the Beginning: The Constitution of the Original Executive (2015).

15 See Prakash, Separation and Overlap, supra note 3, at 372–73.

16 Id. at 330, 332–33.

17 Barron, David J. & Lederman, Martin S., The Commander in Chief at the Lowest Ebb – A Constitutional History, 121 Harv. L. Rev. 941, 966 (2008)Google Scholar.

18 Id. at 988–90.

19 Prakash, Saikrishna Bangalore, The Great Suspender's Unconstitutional Suspension of the Great Writ, 3 Alb. Gov't. L. Rev. 575, 584 (2010)Google Scholar.

20 Barron & Lederman, supra note 17, at 1005–06. See also James G. Randall, Constitutional Problems Under Lincoln 166–67 (1964).

21 Barron & Lederman, supra note 17, at 1007 (quoting Ex Parte Milligan, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 2 (1866)).

22 Milligan, 71 U.S. at 2, 139.

23 Id.

24 Prakash, Separation and Overlap, supra note 3, at 363.

25 Id. at 314–15, 324.

26 Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579, 610–11 (1952) (Frankfurter, J., concurring).

27 Barron & Lederman, supra note 17, at 1060–61.

29 Alexa Van Brunt, The ‘Torture’ Memos Prove America's Lawyers Don't Know How to Be Ethical, Wash. Post (Dec. 12, 2014), at https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/12/the-torture-memos-prove-americas-lawyers-dont-know-how-to-be-ethical/?utm_term=.e608df112ec9; R. Jeffrey Smith, Slim Legal Grounds for Torture Memos: Most Scholars Reject Broad View of Executive's Power, Wash. Post, July 4, 2004, at A12; Adam Liptak, Legal Scholars Criticize Memos on Torture, N.Y. Times (June 25, 2004), at https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/25/world/the-reach-of-war-penal-law-legal-scholars-criticize-memos-on-torture.html.

30 Gregory B. Craig & Cliff Sloan, The President Doesn't Need Congress's Permission to Close Guantánamo, Wash. Post (Nov. 6, 2015), at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-president-doesnt-need-congresss-permission-to-close-guantanamo/2015/11/06/4cc9d2ac-83f5-11e5-a7ca-6ab6ec20f839_story.html?utm_term=.cb1d909e7514.

31 Id.

32 Id.