A “Historical Gloss on the Vesting Power?”
By Prof. Michael Glennon — Can the President, based upon no textually committed constitutional power but only upon inherent or implied power, disregard an act of Congress because that law concerns the conduct of U.S. foreign relations? On November 7, before the...
America’s Caesar
By Prof. Michael Glennon — “Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shared a laugh with a television news reporter moments after hearing deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi had been killed. ” ‘We came, we saw, he died,’ she joked when told of news...Pointing the Finger of Scorn at Iran
The Obama administration has publicly accused Iran of plotting to kill Saudi Arabia’s ambassador in Washington. Why?
Libyan Triumphalism
The happy outcome of Kaddafi’s removal does not make the Libyan project a sensible enterprise for the United States and its allies to have undertaken―let alone a model for future interventions.