U.S. Attacks Syria

[Dill]

(04-16-2018, 04:39 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Contact with committees isn't specific statutory authority. We're talking an AUMF. The, what is it, gang of 8, would have been notified, but that is just letting them know. That is still the Executive acting unilaterally. This is the way it has been for a while, now.

Reagan informed Congressional leaders he was invading Grenada hours after he had signed the invasion order.
In Conyers vs Reagan, John Conyers and 10 members of Congress filed a suit against Reagan for ordering the invasion of Granada without duly reporting first. They lost because Congress supposedly has "other remedies."  (The case was not ripe.)
https://ccrjustice.org/home/what-we-do/our-cases/conyers-v-reagan

Bush 41 informed Congressional leaders he was going to invade Panama 7 hours before the invasion began. But Congress does not view "informing" as consulting or properly reporting. So there has been lots of inter-branch fighting about this for decades now.

In '93, Clinton reported the first U.S. air actions over Bosnia after the fact.

So many grey areas here, as the WPR does not even specify whom in Congress is to be consulted.