Bernie Sanders Abandons Plan To Force Vote on Yemen War
Faced with White House opposition, Sanders withdrew a resolution that would've challenged U.S. involvement in the Yemeni Civil War.
Faced with White House opposition, Sanders withdrew a resolution that would've challenged U.S. involvement in the Yemeni Civil War.
It signals that many in Congress still condemn America's role in the war and actions from the president that lack proper authorization.
Under Obama, Trump, and now Biden, U.S. arms deals with Saudi Arabia have perpetuated a humanitarian crisis.
What should come next for the U.S.-Saudi Arabia relationship
Selling weapons to the UAE would stamp brutality and extremism abroad with American approval.
Open warfare between Iran and Saudi Arabia would be far worse than this weekend's attacks.
It's not likely to get anywhere in the Senate, but consider it progress.
A letter signed by a wide range of scholars with different political and jurisprudential views urges Congress to sue to end illegal US involvement in the Yemen conflict.
The US role in the ongoing war in Yemen violates the War Powers Act. Reasserting Congressional power here is vital to the more general purpose of ensuring legislative control over the initiation of war.
As a candidate, Trump promised to end pointless Middle Eastern wars. He just vetoed a resolution to do exactly that.
The bill now goes to President Trump's desk.
Thank Donald Trump for the belated attempt to enforce the Constitution's separation of powers.
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Can we stop being surprised (or pretending to be surprised) at well-established critiques of interventionism?
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Paul has long opposed U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
The airstrike in northern Yemen kills 51 civilians and injures 79 more.
If there wasn't enough reason to stop selling arms to the Saudis, a new report found that they were responsible for most of the child casualties in Yemen.
Obama's shamefully weak stab at transparency has been abandoned.
By a closer margin than the last time Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Chris Murphy (D-Ct.), and Al Franken (D-Minn.) tried to block a Saudi arms deal.
A U.S. airstrike in Mosul could have caused the largest civilian casualties since the start of the Iraq War.
Bombing campaign in Yemen intensifies as additional troops head to Syria, elsewhere.
A more restrained foreign policy will require sustained commitment from the Trump administration, Congress, and the American people.
A letter from a bipartisan group of representatives calls on Paul Ryan to schedule votes on AUMF resolutions.
'Shut up,' the president explained.
It's the first such death on the new president's watch.
The dissonance between the countries the Trump EO primarily affects and countries associated with 9/11 is embedded in U.S. foreign policy.
The global war on terror never missed a beat.
Indications point to more and grander military interventions under a President Clinton.
U.S. destroyer launches missiles at Yemen radar sites after missiles from Yemen miss destroyer.
It's past time to have the "Where is this relationship going?" conversation.
Messes for a legacy.
GOP frontrunner says voters want "unpredictability."
New bases and new commitments to defend other countries' borders mean "enduring" military conflicts.
The Obama administration is assisting Saudi Arabia in creating a humanitarian catastrophe in the Middle East's poorest country.
We would be safer from terrorism without the U.S. government.