Judge Andrew P. Napolitano: Presidents, Congress and the power to make war

His campaign promises to the contrary notwithstanding, Biden has followed in the footsteps of his immediate predecessors. They bombed civilians in an aspirin factory in Kosovo (Clinton), bombed civilians in Iraq (G.W. Bush), bombed military targets and government buildings in Libya and bombed a cafe in the Yemen desert targeting an American who was having tea (Obama), bombed the same location as Biden in Syria, and bombed a convoy of trucks in Iraq targeting an Iranian general who was on his way to lunch with an Iraqi counterpart (Trump). All of these bombings and targeted killings violated the U.S. Constitution, the U.N. Charter -- which is a treaty largely written by the U.S., and to which the U.S. is a signatory -- and international law.