are currently fighting now. how has that precedent led to where we are today? historically with a few exceptions, presidents have gone to congress as the constitution requires before starting a major conflict that happened with the two iraq wars and vietnam war a. president obama initiated a new war to overthrow the libyan government in 2011 without going to congress at all. that was a major breach of the constitution and of the norm that had developed and he also did a similar action with the war against isis. there the legal issues were more complicated. with libya, he initiated an unconstitutional war without congressional authorization and that s a precedent that president trump and others could potentially use. margaret? i think with the trump administration, you see a new administration that is still working through not just what its policy is on north korea but what the policy is on afghanistan. what its policy is on russia and
there s nobody that i m aware of, even on the left that is suggesting that judge gorsuch isn t qualified to serve as a supreme court justice. republicans in the past have allowed democrat presidents to have their nominees voted o up or down, and for the most part, when you go back to president oba obama, president clinton, republicans have joined with democrats to allow people who are qualified to go onto the court. to see this new precedent led by senator schumer is disappointing. there was a column in one of the papers today. you are really fundamentally changing how the senate is gonna operate by doing this. i think that s an important they can disagree with him. i get that. but when you have an election, you assume a republican president is going to choose republicans for appointments and for federal judgeships. then democrats will do the same with their time in office.