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Rand Paul ISIS War #39;Illegal Until Congress Acts - TOI
Rand Paul ISIS War #39;Illegal Until Congress Acts Senator Rand Paul continues to insert his unconventional views into the nation #39;s foreign policy debate as the 2016 presidential contest gets...
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Washington (CNN) -- Sen. Rand Paul is receiving blowback from some of his Japanese-American colleagues after using World War II Japanese internment camps to describe what happens when a chief executive oversteps their power.
"Think of what happened in WWII, where the President issued an executive order," the Kentucky Republican said in a speech in his home state Friday slamming President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration. "He said to Japanese people, 'We're going to put you in a camp. We're going to take away all of your rights and liberties and we are going to intern you in a camp.'"
"I care that too much power gets in one place," Paul continued. "Why? Because there has been instances in our history where we allow power to gravitate to one person and that one person then makes decisions that really are egregious."
As news of the speech spread, Japanese lawmakers slammed Paul for his remarks.
"Rand Paul's comments comparing President Obama's executive order on Immigration with President Roosevelt's executive order that imprisoned thousands of Americans of Japanese descent during World War II could not be more misguided," Rep. Mike Honda said in a statement out Monday. "At best, he is confused. At worst, he is just wrong."
Honda himself lived in and out of Japanese internment camps for four years as a small child, as he referenced in his statement.
"As someone who as victim of executive order 9066, I can say without hesitation that (President Franklin Delano) Roosevelt was wrong," Honda said. "It was a misuse of power. President Obama's order is an appropriate use of executive order because Congress did not do its job."
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TIME Politics Congress Rand Pauls Declaration of War Against ISIS Divides Civil Libertarians Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) speaks to an audience of supporters of Georgia Senate candidate David Perdue during a campaign stop in McDonough, Ga. on Oct. 24, 2014. Jessica McGowanGetty Images Some think a formal declaration of war would set limits, others worry where it would lead
Less than a week after rebuffing civil libertarians over a National Security Agency reform bill, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has divided them over a new draft to declare war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria and strip the authority President Obama uses to fight terrorism across the Middle East. Paul released his draft Monday and intends on introducing it in December.
The measure would set unprecedented limits on the Obama Administration, defining ISIS as the enemy and limiting ground combat forces to protect U.S. armed forces from imminent danger, attack high value targets and advise intelligence operations. The authorization only lasts for a year before Congress would have to re-up it.
The chances of the bill passing the presidents desk are slim, so to sayCongress has not declared war since World War IIbut it is interesting as it puts a likely Republican presidential contender on the same side as the New York Times editorial board on the question over whether or not the U.S. needs to act under a new legal authority to fight ISIS while dividing civil libertarians.
Some civil libertarians, angered by Obama and former president George W. Bush, who used authority granted by Congress in 2001 and 2002 to fight the War on Terror years later, praised the measure as an attempt to finally restore the checks and balance system.
It is the most muscular and assertive use of congressional authority under the Constitution of any of the proposals that are out there so far, says Chris Anders, a senior legislative counsel in the American Civil Liberties Unions Washington Legislative Office. We have a president deciding on his own once again to take the country to war without following the Constitution.
Anders said that Paul could be more specific in defining the objective, enemy and geographic limitations, but thinks that with additional information and hearings Paul can tighten up his draft.
I think given the information that is available right now, thats probably about as good as you can do, he said.
While Paul will face fierce opposition from the scores of defense hawks on Capitol Hill, he is not alone in providing the Administration with new authority to fight ISIS. A spokesman for Democratic California Rep. Adam Schiff, who has pushed along with Sens. Tim Kaine of Virginia and Robert Menendez of New Jersey for new congressional authorization, found a few things he liked in Pauls plan, including the new limits on the length of the mission and how troops are used.
Senator Pauls resolution tracks the bill introduced by Rep. Schiff in key respectsrepealing the 2002 authorization, sunsetting the new authority and the 2001 authorization contemporaneously, and limiting the use of ground troops against [ISIS], says Patrick Boland, Schiffs spokesman. While the limitations on ground troops differ in key respects, Senator Pauls bill is another important contribution to the debate over a new war authorization and adds support to the effort Senator Kaine and Schiff have been making to press for a Congressional debate and action on this key issue during the lame duck sessionhopefully his entry into this debate will help jumpstart the conversation on a new authorization which should begin immediately.
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TIME Politics Foreign Policy Rand Paul Wants to Declare War Against ISIS War cannot be initiated without Congress
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul said in a new interview that Congress should formally declare war against the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) as a way to limit the engagement against the militant group and take war powers back from President Barack Obama.
War cannot be initiated without Congress, Paul told the New York Times in advocating for the first formal declaration of war since World War II. Paul is circulating a resolution to do just that.
A likely 2016 presidential candidate whose libertarian-leaning foreign policy is viewed skeptically by many conservatives and mainstream Republicans, Paul is likely to face backlash from members of his own party who dont want to limit the Presidents authority when it comes to fighting ISIS.
Conservatives are mad at him about immigration. And theyre mad about him using executive authority on Obamacare, Paul said. But this is another example where he doesnt have much respect for Congress, and some conservatives dont quite get that.
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Paul told TIME earlier this year that his support for fighting ISIS, which has taken control of large swaths of Iraq and Syria, doesnt mean you give up your principles of thinking war is the last resort.
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