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April 2018 Airstrikes Against Syrian Chemical-Weapons Facilities

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The President could lawfully direct airstrikes on facilities associated with Syria’s chemical-weapons capability because he had reasonably determined that the use of force would be in the national interest and that the anticipated hostilities would not rise to the level of a war in the constitutional sense.

Updated May 31, 2018