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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I don't know. The analogy that comes to mind is the Boland Amendment, by which Congress prevented the Reagan Administration from funding the contras.
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Right. That's what comes to mind to me too.
I can't remember if there was any litigation over that, but surely it's a political question.
I guess they can try to impeach him over it. I don't suspect they would make a serious attempt to do so, though (i.e., they'd have someone marginal put up a resolution but not push to pass it). It's better politics for them to keep screaming about scare tactics than to give him a forum in which he's being prosecuted from which to mount a defense from the moral high ground. Maybe I underestimate their outrage though.
Anyway, I guess I'm with you in that I really don't seriously expect them to have done anything differently. But I'm also with Wonk in that I think I probably should.
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