Ex-House Republican Blasts ‘Nonsensical’ Legal Argument Supporting Trump Boat Strikes

Alex Griffing Dec 5th, 2025, 4:55 pm

Ex-Republican Congressman Justin Amash (R-MI) tore into some of his former colleagues on Friday and argued that no matter how much they try to claim that President Donald Trump has been given legal carte blanche to bomb terrorists, that is not the case.

“It’s almost hard to believe the absurd lengths people will go to pretend the 2001 AUMF authorizes the boat-strike military campaign,” Amash wrote on social media while debating on the topic.

The 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force is a joint resolution passed by Congress following the 9/11 terror attacks and was the legal authority behind the War on Terror and several military actions since, all w

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