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The Role of the Supreme Court in War Efforts

The commander in chief must be a single individual list, it must be one will repose in one person. Congress is not one person, it's an assembly of many, many persons. And now if war has been declared by Congress, President Commander in chief, what role is there for the Supreme Court? Joshua: If you allow the Supreme Court to intervene and direct war efforts, that defeats the whole point of having the president as commander in chief. What would judges know about fighting wars? After all, only lawyers. You would have fitted in well in the Bush administration, Joshua. I mean, surely the response there is you say what's the point of this? But you say it

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