Lawfare Archive: War Powers History You Never Knew with Matt Waxman
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🗓️ 8 August 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
From March 9, 2019: For the past year, Matthew Waxman has been writing a series of vignettes on Lawfare about interesting—and usually overlooked—historical episodes of American constitutional war powers in action, and relating them to modern debates. These include the stories of St. Claire’s Defeat and the Whiskey Rebellion during the Washington administration, congressional war powers and the surprisingly late termination of World War I, the proposed Ludlow Amendment during the interwar years, and Dwight Eisenhower’s surprisingly broad Taiwan force authorization.
Benjamin Wittes invited Matt on the podcast to talk about these episodes and how they fit together into the book broader project from which they sprung. It's a great discussion, very different from the usual war powers debates. Even if you think you know a lot about constitutional war powers, you’ll learn a lot.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:39.2 | This is LawFair in turn Christiana Wayne with an episode from the Archives for August |
| 0:44.2 | 8th 2021. |
| 0:46.1 | The synod is moving forward with repeal of both the 1991 authorization for use of military |
| 0:51.6 | force and the goal for and the 2002 authorization of the Iraq War. |
| 0:57.1 | If passed, it would be the first successful repeal of an AUMF in 50 years. |
| 1:02.4 | For today's episode from the Archives, I've gone back to March 2019 for discussion on |
| 1:08.1 | war powers through the years. |
| 1:10.2 | They talk about Charles Evans use the whiskey rebellion Eisenhower's Taiwan policy and other |
| 1:15.4 | hidden gems of legal history. |
| 1:18.1 | And they discuss what's missing from our usual war powers debates. |
| 1:24.9 | So Matt, this is podcasts that I wanted to do with you for a long time. |
| 1:30.1 | But I think requires a little bit of explanation to the listener because we're going to cover |
| 1:34.9 | a lot of ground. |
| 1:36.5 | You've been working on a book and in the course of writing this book and researching this |
| 1:42.5 | book, you keep discovering these little gems of legal history in national security law |
| 1:49.9 | and war powers law that you have been spinning off as this growing collection of lawFair |
| 1:57.7 | posts. |
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