{"id":8937,"date":"2011-06-16T22:07:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T06:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8937"},"modified":"2011-06-16T22:07:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T06:37:21","slug":"10-lawmakers-sue-obama-over-unauthorized-military-operations-in-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8937","title":{"rendered":"10 lawmakers sue Obama over unauthorized military operations in Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staradvertiser.com\/news\/breaking\/123922514.html\">AP reports<\/a> that a bipartisan group of ten members of congress are is suing  President Barack Obama and\u00a0 Secretary of Defense Robert Gates for taking military action against Libya without  war authorization from Congress: &#8220;The lawmakers say Obama violated the Constitution  in bypassing Congress  and using international organizations like the  United Nations and the  North Atlantic Treaty Organization to authorize  military force.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs in the case are:\u00a0 Democratic Reps. Dennis  Kucinich of Ohio, John Conyers  of Michigan and Michael Capuano of  Massachusetts and Republican Reps.  Walter Jones and Howard Coble of  North Carolina, Tim Johnson and Dan  Burton of Indiana, Jimmy Duncan of  Tennessee, Roscoe Bartlett of  Maryland and Ron Paul of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>They seek a court order  suspending military operations without congressional approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AP reports that a bipartisan group of ten members of congress are is suing President Barack Obama and\u00a0 Secretary of Defense Robert Gates for taking military action against Libya without war authorization from Congress: &#8220;The lawmakers say Obama violated the Constitution in bypassing Congress and using international organizations like the United Nations and the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8937\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;10 lawmakers sue Obama over unauthorized military operations in Libya&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2409],"class_list":["post-8937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-movements-resistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8939,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937\/revisions\/8939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}