http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/07/oddities_from_d_1.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:22:46 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/07/oddities_from_d_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-48462 A.J. Sutter Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:57:15 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2008/07/oddities-from-docketland.html#comment-48462 BTW Congress is authorized to issue letters of marque and reprisal under the US Constition (Article I, Section 8, paragraph 11). Whence the question, I suppose. And at least one (former? current but suspended?) Presidential candidate thought Congress should have immediately done so in the days after 9/11, to fight Osama bin Laden: see http://www.house.gov/paul/press/press2001/pr101101.htm BTW Congress is authorized to issue letters of marque and reprisal under the US Constition (Article I, Section 8, paragraph 11). Whence the question, I suppose. And at least one (former? current but suspended?) Presidential candidate thought Congress should have immediately done so in the days after 9/11, to fight Osama bin Laden: see http://www.house.gov/paul/press/press2001/pr101101.htm

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