An anti-war activist group represented by the Constitutional Law Clinic at Rutgers University Law School-Newark, sued President Bush in federal court on Tuesday, seeking a declaratory judgment that the war in Iraq is illegal and unconstitutional. The suit concedes that federal courts have been loathe to rule against an administration's use of military force, but goes through a lengthy analysis of early court decisions to bolster its claim that the war is illegal.
May 14, 2008 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
An anti-war activist group sued President Bush in U.S. District Court in Newark on Tuesday, seeking a declaratory judgment that the war in Iraq is illegal and unconstitutional.
The suit, New Jersey Peace Action et al. v. Bush, represented by the Constitutional Law Clinic at Rutgers University Law School-Newark, alleges that the war violates article I, section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, which assigns to Congress the authority to declare war.
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