Follow up re: AUMF:
'Reassessments during the Obama and Trump administrations
In 2016, constitutional law specialist professor Bruce Ackerman of Yale Law School said that the Obama Administration's use of the AUMF to that point had overstepped the authorized powers of the final, enacted version of the bill so as to more closely resemble the capabilities named in this draft text rejected by Congress.[9]
On June 29, 2017, a group of libertarian Republicans and Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee approved Barbara Lee’s amendment to end the 2001 authorization within 240 days. This would have forced debate on a replacement authorization, but the amendment was removed from the bill by the Rules Committee, and the AUMF remains in effect.[10][11]
In 2018, Senators Tim Kaine and Bob Corker proposed a new version of the AUMF that would allow ongoing wars against terrorist groups abroad, broaden the list of people who can be subjected to indefinite detention without being charged with a crime, and enable the president to wage any war simply by giving Congress 48 hours' notice.[12]'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_Against_Terrorists
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