Iraq War anniversary: Repeal military force authorization, limit presidential war powers

Julian Zelizer: President Biden declared that our nation is no longer at war, but more than a speech is needed to end U.S. hostilities in the Middle East.

He says Congress must reform the legal landscape to guard against the kind of military adventurism that has marked the past two decades.

Zelizer says Obama, Trump, Biden have similarly encroached on Congress’s war powers.

Without efforts to repeal the Iraq War AUMF and claw back Congress’s constitutional war powers, U.S. hostilities in Iraq and its neighbors will continue.

Katherine Yon Ebright is counsel in the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law.