I'm Jeffrey Rosen, President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome to the latest of our We the People Constitutional Podcasts.

The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America chartered by Congress to disseminate information about the U.S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis.

And today we discuss a fascinating constitutional question, namely, is President Obama redefining the Constitution? in constitutional I still. President Obama has made his case for acting against the terrorist

group, but for the past week experts have been debating whether the president's

actions and her current conflict with a law that requires him to ask for direct congressional permission

before a prolonged military action.

President Obama has cited a 2001 congressional authorization to attack Al Qaeda and its

related forces as

authorization a move that puzzled many observers since al-Qaeda and ISIL forces are

currently fighting each other joining us to look over past conflicts about the war powers resolution and the current situation involving President Obama and Congress are two of the leading experts on executive power in times of war.

Iilia Somman is Professor of Law George Mason University School of Law. I'm I'm going to

George Mason University School of Law.

He has served as editor of the Supreme Court Economic Reviews

and is a frequent contributor to the popular

Volak conspiracy blog.

John U is the Emmanuel S Heller Professor of Law at the University of California Berkeley School

of Law.

Professor U has written frequently about the War Powers Resolution and has served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of

Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice.

Gentlemen, welcome and let's jump right in.

Eilia, can you please explain to our listeners what the war power resolution is, how it came

to be created in the aftermath of the Vietnam War?

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