{"id":178185,"date":"2019-02-13T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/13\/it-would-be-nice-to-see-this-validated-in-the-courts\/"},"modified":"2019-02-13T20:17:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T01:17:00","slug":"it-would-be-nice-to-see-this-validated-in-the-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/13\/it-would-be-nice-to-see-this-validated-in-the-courts\/","title":{"rendered":"It Would Be Nice to See this Validated in the Courts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what is an extremely rare rebuke, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/powerpost\/house-passes-measure-to-end-us-military-involvement-in-yemen-repudiating-trumps-backing-of-saudi-led-coalition\/2019\/02\/13\/dd6852ba-2fc9-11e9-813a-0ab2f17e305b_story.html\">House of Representatives voted to invoke the War Powers Act to prevent further aid to the House of Saud&#8217;s brutal war in Yemen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good policy, and good politics:&nbsp; The actions in Yemen are indefensible, and it shows&nbsp; Trump&#8217;s pretense of opposition to foreign wars to be false.<\/p>\n<p>While I do not expect this to go very far in the Senate, it does a good job of jamming Trump and the Republican Party up.<\/p>\n<p>Well played.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what is an extremely rare rebuke, the House of Representatives voted to invoke the War Powers Act to prevent further aid to the House of Saud&#8217;s brutal war in Yemen. It&#8217;s good policy, and good politics:&nbsp; The actions in Yemen are indefensible, and it shows&nbsp; Trump&#8217;s pretense of opposition to foreign wars to be &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[489,447,370,394,449,378],"class_list":["post-178185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-civil-war","tag-congress","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-foreign-relations","tag-legislation","tag-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}