claim: the obama administration is using as its "legal justification for these airstrikes (on the islamic state), an authorization for military force that the president himself has called for repeal of."
author: julie pace
evidence_1: sep 6, 2016 ... 11 attacks, congress authorized the president to act against those ... group is not  legal because the u.s. congress has not authorized it. ... 1 with an  announcement: the u.s. had just launched airstrikes against islamic state  targets in libya. ... the taliban, and their associated forces," said president  obama, ...
evidence_2: "the u.s. state department has ordered 160,000 hazmat suits for ebola, ... the  obama administration is using as its "legal justification for these airstrikes (on the  ... authorization for military force that the president himself has called for repeal of . ... pundits discussed president barack obama's plan to defeat the islamic state  ...
evidence_3: sep 23, 2014 ... after spending nearly six years of his presidency installing a series of ... in syria  that stretches the limits of those legal and policy enclosures. the barrage of  airstrikes was aimed mainly at a militant group, the islamic state, that is no ... of  the two congressional authorizations for use of military force (aumf) ...
evidence_4: feb 21, 2017 ... as military action against the islamic state has evolved and increased, many ...  2015, and in his 2016 state of the union address again called on congress to  enact a new ... administration's official position on presidential authority to use  force ... this report focuses on the several proposals for a new aumf ...
evidence_5: the authorization for the use of military force, passed by congress in the ... by  the bush and obama administrations as sanctioning far-ranging military  operations. ... presidents george w. bush and barack obama have cited the  aumf as the ... ordered to participate in the war against the islamic state, has  challenged his ...