Trump not authorised to strike Syria: Kentucky lawmaker
Washington DC [United States], Apr. 14 (ANI): Criticizing US President Donald Trump's decision to launch precision strikes in Syria, Representative for Kentucky [R-KY4] Thomas Massie on Friday said that the U.S. Constitution does not give the president the authority to carry out such attack.
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Apr 14, 2018 09:36 IST
Washington DC [United States], Apr. 14 (ANI): Criticizing US President Donald Trump's decision to launch precision strikes in Syria, Representative for Kentucky [R-KY4] Thomas Massie on Friday said that the U.S. Constitution does not give the president the authority to carry out such attack.
Massie's comment comes minutes after Trump announced that the U.S., France and the United Kingdom had begun military strikes in Syria in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack in a suburb of Damascus that killed dozens of civilians.
Massie took to Twitter and said, "I haven't read France's or Britain's "Constitution," but I've read ours and nowhere in it is Presidential authority to strike Syria."
I haven't read France's or Britain's "Constitution," but I've read ours and no where in it is Presidential authority to strike Syria.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) April 14, 2018
Following that, Massie and other lawmakers questioned the president's constitutional authority to launch an attack without congressional approval. (ANI)
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