It’s not often that I see a piece of legislation that I can support in its entirety but that what House Congressional Resolution 107 is:
Expressing the sense of Congress that the use of offensive military force by a President without prior and clear authorization of an Act of Congress constitutes an impeachable high crime and misdemeanor under article II, section 4 of the Constitution.
Whereas the cornerstone of the Republic is honoring Congress’s exclusive power to declare war under article I, section 8, clause 11 of the Constitution: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That it is the sense of Congress that, except in response to an actual or imminent attack against the territory of the United States, the use of offensive military force by a President without prior and clear authorization of an Act of Congress violates Congress’s exclusive power to declare war under article I, section 8, clause 11 of the Constitution and therefore constitutes an impeachable high crime and misdemeanor under article II, section 4 of the Constitution.
A resolution that is aiming to actually enforce a clause in the Constitution that restricts the president’s power by moving to impeach our warmonger president? Hell yes, sign this damn thing and get the impeachment hearings underway! After this gets done I hope to see every member of the legislature bring impeachment hearings against one another until all of the three branches of government lie entirely empty.
I know the chances of any of my hopes happening are almost nil but I’ve always believe a man should dream big.