Sentence examples for old authorizations from inspiring English sources

Technically, because of old authorizations still on the books, the president has the authority to go after pirates in the Caribbean and French ships "on the high seas".

But rather than replacing the old authorizations, the new AUMF provides an additional legal tool for waging war.

"That's very worrying to a lot of Democrats," he continued, "because it means that when the new one expires, the next president can simply rely on this old authorization and say, 'That gives me the authority to go after whoever I want, wherever I want, in any way I want.'".

Obama has argued that the Islamic State is an offshoot of al Qaeda and is therefore covered by the old authorization.

"The reality is that without a sunset on the old authorization, it doesn't limit this administration or the next in any appreciable manner," he said.

"The reality is that without a sunset on the old authorization, it doesn't limit this administration or the next in any appreciable manner," said Schiff, one of few lawmakers who has been calling for a new AUMF.

"The reality is that without a sunset on the old authorization, it doesn't limit this administration or the next in any appreciable manner," said Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif .. "When the new authorization expires three years from now... the next presiD-Calif .rightly say, 'I'm going to rely on the 2001 authorization just as Obama did.

The Obama administration had urged the appeals court on Monday morning to block the injunction, saying that Judge Forrest's ruling had gone beyond the new statute and jeopardized some of its existing authority to hold certain wartime prisoners under the 11-year-old Authorization for Use of Military Force against the perpetrators of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Legal scholars on the left and the right denounced the president's unconstitutional decision to bypass Congress and authorize military action unilaterally by pinning it to the 13 year-old Authorization for Use of Military Force against al-Qaida – which expelled Isis months ago.

Currently, the Obama administration claims legal legitimacy for its operations under the 13-year-old Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) originally passed to combat al-Qaida.

Nobody, including Obama, is particularly comfortable with using a 14-year-old authorization for a new war.