The “bill” in Congress is merely a “resolution” to test the “sense of Congress.” It is not a true bill which may become a law or involve actual impeachment.Finally, there is no way this will lead to impeachment any more than any previous President was impeached for waging war without a declaration from Congress. The executive powers and emergency powers of the President have been expanded since FDR specifically to avoid this pesky bump in the Constitutional process.
The claim that “Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution reserves for Congress alone the power to declare war,” and the Resolution’s claim of Congress’ “exclusive power to declare war” are, since FDR, total legal delusions. In reality, they have been delusions since the Constitution was written.
If any legislator intends to make real change here, they will first have to address the nature of the Constitutional construction, the National Emergency Act, and the War Powers Resolution for starters. Without touching these, any move to impeach any president for military action outside of a declaration of war is a dream.
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