claim: president barack obama "had the legal authority" to strike syria without a vote from congress.
author: joe lieberman
evidence_1: apr 7, 2017 ... president donald trump and president barack obama have now both ordered  airstrikes in syria, but there are key ways that thursday's strike was different from  the previous military strikes there.
evidence_2: apr 7, 2017 ... "congress must be called back immediately, if president trump plans to escalate  our military involvement. he must send a new authorization for use of ... joe  lieberman, who said obama would have had the legal authority to strike syria  without a vote from congress. politifact national's rating was true.
evidence_3: aug 31, 2013 ... president obama abruptly changed course by asking lawmakers, who are not  due to return to town for more than a week, to give him authorization before ...  although congressional leaders hailed his decision to seek the permission of  lawmakers who had been clamoring for a say, the turnabout leaves mr.
evidence_4: apr 7, 2017 ... it would court a fight over when and why the executive branch can get america's  military involved in operations overseas without input from congress — but that  fight has been going on for decades. indeed, the obama administration made  legal arguments for justifiable unilateral force that could be ...
evidence_5: apr 7, 2017 ... the president ordered the strike without authorization by the united nations  security council or by congress, raising questions about his legal limits. ... in the  end, mr. obama took its advice and asked congress to authorize a punitive strike  against syria, even as he insisted that he had “the authority to carry ...