CONGRESS/MILITARY/NORTH KOREA/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Many lawmakers have expressed support for the recent missile strikes against Syria, launched without congressional approval, but a number harbor concerns that the White House believes it now has broad authority to undertake further, riskier attacks that could lead to full-blown war. They say the Trump administration has expressed an expansive view of presidential authority to wage war without Congress, and fear Congress’s constitutional role in authorizing and overseeing military action has been sidelined…New national security adviser John Bolton has in the past advocated pre-emptive military action against those countries to prevent them from developing nuclear weapons, though the White House is now laying the groundwork for talks, not war, with North Korea.”
– Byron Tau, “Some in Congress Fear White House Will Claim Expanded War Powers After Syria Attack,” The Wall Street Journal, April 18, 2018 4:32 pm