The Honorable Parren J. Mitchell v. Melvin R. Laird
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
WYZANSKI, Senior District Judge:
April 7, 1971 thirteen members of the United States House of Representatives, as plaintiffs, filed in the District Court a complaint against the President of the United States, the Secretaries of State, Defense, Army, Navy, and Air Force, and the United States of America. Plaintiffs alleged that for seven years the United States, by the named individual defendants and their predecessors, has been engaged in a war in Indochina without obtaining “either a declaration of war or an explicit, intentional and discrete authorization of war” and thereby “unlawfully…
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