Danny and Derek welcome Katherine Yon Ebright, counsel with the Brennan Center’s Liberty & National Security Program, to the podcast for a discussion of the past and present of US constitutional war powers. They touch on the Mexican-American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Korean War, congressional resistance to the expansion of war powers, security cooperation authorities, the AUMF, and more.
This shit is so much more broken than I thought. It's disheartening that even someone that follows this so closely can still be conditioned enough to say the US is a democracy. It seems confrontation with China and global economic collapse is the only thing that could force a wreckoning. I feel like I understand Clarence Thomas more everyday and it's infuriating.
Great guest
This shit is so much more broken than I thought. It's disheartening that even someone that follows this so closely can still be conditioned enough to say the US is a democracy. It seems confrontation with China and global economic collapse is the only thing that could force a wreckoning. I feel like I understand Clarence Thomas more everyday and it's infuriating.