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Re:DOJ Argues: US can kill own citizens without review when ... by harimau777 on Saturday January 02, 2021 @11:06PM (#25619330)
It seems to me that if we are going to go with that approach then we would need to start actually declaring wars again.
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Re:DOJ Argues: US can kill own citizens without review when ... by dragonwriter on Saturday January 02, 2021 @11:22PM (#25619410)
We never stopped declaring war; declarations of war don't require particular magic words; the Afghanistan and Iraq AUMFs, for instance, were each valid conditional (and, in the former case, broadly open-ended) declarations of war.
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Re:DOJ Argues: US can kill own citizens without review when ... by tipsysquid on Saturday January 02, 2021 @11:36PM (#25619489)
When in the last 30 years did the US Congress declare an act of war?
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Re:DOJ Argues: US can kill own citizens without review when ... by dragonwriter on Sunday January 03, 2021 @03:26AM (#25620450)
> When in the last 30 years did the US Congress declare an act of war?

The grandparent post is a single sentence and identifies two instances that answer that question (they aren't a full answer because there are more examples in that timeframe.)

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