Politics

Day Sixty Falls and the White House Treats It Like Any Other

Empty Senate chamber at dusk with the presiding officer's rostrum lit and the gallery dark.
TL;DR

The 1973 War Powers Resolution's 60-day clock runs out today and Washington has decided the deadline does not exist.

MSM Perspective

CNN and the Washington Post itemize the legal arguments and call it a constitutional showdown.

X Perspective

X reads the day not as a constitutional showdown but as a funeral — the resolution is dead and even Federalist Society lawyers are saying so out loud.

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