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Zack Beauchamp joins Dara and Matt to explain the ever-expanding 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force and Trump's even more expansive legal rationale for bombing Syria.

References and further reading:

Vox's history of the AUMF

A primer on the legal dispute in Doe v. Mattis

Chesney primer on the Corker-Kaine Draft AUMF

Who is Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben?

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