Lawfare Archive: War Powers and the Biden Administration
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🗓️ 27 January 2024
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From March 12, 2021: President Joe Biden has conducted military strikes in Syria, has articulated legal theories under which the series of strikes were proper and has temporarily reined in the use of drone strikes. To talk about Biden and war powers, Benjamin Wittes sat down with John Bellinger, who served as the legal adviser at the State Department and the legal adviser for the National Security Council in the Bush administration; Lawfare senior editor Scott Anderson, who worked in the State Department's Office of the Legal Adviser, as well as in the Iraqi embassy; and Rebecca Ingber, who also worked in the State Department's Office of the Legal Adviser and is currently a professor at Cardozo Law School. They talked about how the Biden administration justified the strikes in Syria, the reports it has not yet given on its legal and policy framework for counterterrorism, whether this is the year that AUMF reform might finally happen and which authorizations to use military force might finally see reform.
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| 0:46.0 | Earlier this week, President Joe Biden released his second report in accordance with the War Powers Resolution, notifying Congress of the second round of joint US UK strikes against |
| 0:55.6 | the Huthies in Yemen. |
| 0:57.4 | For today's archive episode, I picked an episode from March 12, 2021, in which Benjamin Wies sat down with John Bellinger, Scott Anderson, and |
| 1:05.7 | Rebecca Inber to talk about how the Biden administration justified its strikes in Syria at the time. |
| 1:11.6 | The reports that had not yet given on its legal and |
| 1:13.7 | policy framework for counterterrorism, A-U-M-F reform, and more. I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the Law Fair Podcast, March 12, 2021. |
| 1:33.7 | Joe Biden conducted military strikes in Syria. |
| 1:38.6 | He's also reined in temporarily the use of drone strikes and he has articulated legal theories under which |
| 1:46.3 | the Syria strikes were proper. |
| 1:49.1 | It's a good opportunity to have a conversation about Biden and war powers and we have just the group to do it. |
| 1:56.0 | John Bellinger was the legal advisor at the State Department and the legal advisor for the |
| 2:02.3 | National Security Council in the Bush administration. |
| 2:06.0 | Lawfare senior editor Scott Anderson worked in the State Department Legal Advisors Office |
| 2:11.0 | as well as in the Iraqi embassy, and Rebecca Inber also worked at |
| 2:18.2 | State Legal and is currently a professor at Cardosa Law School. We talked about how the Biden administration |
| 2:26.3 | justified the strikes in Syria. We talked about the reports it has not yet given on its legal and policy framework for |
| 2:34.8 | counterterrorism. We talked about whether this is the year that a-U-M-F |
| 2:40.4 | reform might finally happen and which authorizations to use military force might finally |
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