[Peace-discuss] JFP alert: SenateGOP: Override "Veto" of "JASTA for Children of Yemen"

[Robert Naiman]

Swing for the Fence.

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From: Robert Naiman, Just Foreign Policy <info at justforeignpolicy.org>
Date: Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 4:40 PM
Subject: SenateGOP: Override "Veto" of "JASTA for Children of Yemen"
To: <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>


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  *Tell Senate Republicans to "override" the "veto."*



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Dear Robert,

In mid-April, President Trump “vetoed” [*sic*] the bipartisan *Mike Lee -
Bernie Sanders - Chris Murphy* Yemen War Powers Act Congress passed to end
unconstitutional U.S. participation in the despotic Saudi regime’s war and
blockade on children in Yemen. The Saudi regime’s war on Yemeni children,
which began in March 2015 under the *Obama-Biden* Administration, has
*strengthened
the most dangerous branch of the Al Qaeda terrorists* who attacked our
homeland on 9/11/2001, *killing three thousand innocent American civilians* -
the Yemeni branch, *which the Saudi regime has actively supported*. The
Saudi regime’s war in Yemen has also *deliberately created* the worst
humanitarian crisis in the world. A recent UN report says the death toll
from the Saudi regime’s war will pass 230,000
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by
end of this year. *Aid groups say 85,000 children have been starved to
death* so far by the Saudi regime’s war and blockade.

As *Iraq war veteran* and senior writer *David French* pointed out at the
William F. Buckley-founded *National Review*, not only is U.S.
participation in the Saudi regime’s war in Yemen unconstitutional, but *Trump’s
so-called “veto” is also unconstitutional*. Under the War Powers Clause of
Article I of the Constitution, re-affirmed by Section 2c of the War Powers
Resolution in 1973, *the Congress of the United States* - not this
President, nor the last one, nor the next one - *decides when the U.S. uses
military force*. As David French correctly noted
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[my
bold, his italics]:

“Moreover, *even Trump’s veto is an unconstitutional act*. A declaration of
war requires an *affirmative* act of Congress. A bipartisan majority’s
rejection of American participation in the Yemeni conflict is anything but
an affirmation. And when the Constitution requires congressional
affirmation, then congressional *rejection* can’t be vetoed by the
president.”

This week, the Senate is expected to vote on “overriding” Trump’s so-called
“veto” of the *Mike Lee – Bernie Sanders – Chris Murphy* Yemen War Powers
Act. A two-thirds vote is needed to “override.” *That means it’s all up to
Senate Republicans now.*

There is a key historical precedent for what Senate Republicans are now
being asked to do: when the Senate overrode President Obama’s veto of
the *Justice
Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act [JASTA]*, the law which enabled family
members of victims of the Al Qaeda terrorist attacks on our homeland on
9/11/2001 to *sue the despotic Saudi regime in U.S. courts for the Saudi
regime’s complicity in the 9/11 attacks*. The Senate vote on the override
of the *Obama-Biden* attempt to *prevent the 9/11 families from getting
their day in court against the Saudi regime* was *97-1*. Only Democrat
Harry Reid voted no. *Every Senate Republican voted to override
the Obama-Biden attempt to protect the despotic Saudi regime from U.S.
justice.*

*Urge Senate Republicans to do the right thing now by signing our petition.
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Remember 9/11. Bring the Saudi regime to justice. Override the “veto” of
"JASTA for the children of Yemen."
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Thanks for all you do to help U.S. foreign policy become more just,

Robert Reuel Naiman
Just Foreign Policy


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