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OLC posts just-signed opinion about Trump's war powers to unilaterally attack Syria over chemical weapons: justice.gov/olc/opinion/file/1067551/download First cut analysis by @steve_vladeck : justsecurity.org/57300/olcs-formal-and-remarkably-broad-defense-april-syria-strikes/
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As w/ previous admin talking points, no discussion of how it could possibly be lawful, under intl law, for US to attack Syria w/out U.N. sanction or self-defense rationale. Rather than come up w/ stretched & contestable theory (like Obama team would've), Trump team blows it off.