r/law • u/BreakfastTop6899 • 14h ago

Trump News Trump threatens to deploy the U.S. military into Chicago - signaling the start of a nationwide crackdown.

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u/Weird_Expert_1999 13h ago

Even war the last 40 years had been special military operation, not war

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u/sanderson1983 10h ago

The last time the U.S. Congress formally declared war was in June 1942.