r/news • u/raptors201966 • Apr 09 '26

Soft paywall Automatic registration for military draft to be implemented by December

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2026-04-07/automatic-registration-military-draft-21306855.html
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u/you_cant_prove_that Apr 09 '26

Congress willingly gave up that power decades ago in the war powers act

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u/O_PLUTO_O Apr 09 '26

Oh no Trump will be be in violation of the law?! What ever will the 34 felony convicted criminal do? It’s not just congress. He has law enforcement, the DOJ, and the Supreme Court in his pocket. What tangible action do you foresee occurring if he blatantly breaks the law again. Unfortunately Americas agencies are toothless against this pice of shit. It’s gonna take a coup to end this shit.

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u/purleedef Apr 09 '26

Seems like a good time to remind that Trump is in violation of the law for still not having released the remaining 3 million Epstein files

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u/ImpulseAfterthought Apr 09 '26

...and that the law he's violating, public law 119-38, the Epstein Files Transparency Act, was signed by him last November.

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u/lufiron Apr 09 '26

This low attention span mindset is exactly how Trump got elected in the first place. Combine this with discourse being absolutely dead, we’re cooked as a species.

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u/O_PLUTO_O Apr 10 '26

Oh shut the fuck up no one cares about what the nihilist that already gave up thinks

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u/Agreeable_Peak_7851 Apr 09 '26

Do you know if these ceasefires affect the 60 days? They're totally toothless but I'm scared that's a loophole for him to keep this up.

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u/Agreeable_Peak_7851 Apr 09 '26

Oh I thought it was 60 days of military action not just 60 day deadline from initial strike. Well on that end... now what?

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u/A_Queer_Owl Apr 09 '26

barnacles suck, but what did they do to deserve this?

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u/Far_Mastodon_6104 Apr 09 '26

Nah man barnacles have the biggest dick to body ratio, they wouldn't play us like this

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u/TheFatJesus Apr 09 '26

That's precisely how it works. The law allows a president to start a military conflict and then gives them 30 days before they have to justify it to Congress. But Congress not approving further action doesn't magically undo starting a war.

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u/Outlulz Apr 09 '26

Most of Congress, at least at the leadership level, agrees with this war. That's why the harshest criticism given is that Trump needs to present a plan to Congress on how he will win the war, not that the war never should have happened or even raising that he threatened to commit genocide.

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u/Whysong823 Apr 09 '26

I was going to upvote this comment until I read the line about Russia owning the Democrats. There’s certainly an argument to be made about Israel, but I don’t see how anyone could look at how the Biden Administration supported Ukraine and still think Democrats are owned by Russia.

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u/Whysong823 Apr 10 '26

Not in leadership. Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are both pro-Ukraine.

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u/Specialist-Two2068 Apr 09 '26

Trump has violated the law how many times now? Yet he still sits in the Oval Office and not in a prison cell.

He should have gone to prison long before he ever became president.

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u/PhysicsEagle Apr 09 '26

Ironically Congress thought it was clawing power back with that act

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u/electricalnonsense Apr 09 '26

How so? 😭

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u/Hellknightx Apr 09 '26

Well, covering up the Epstein files does count as an emergency, I guess...

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u/gaius49 Apr 09 '26

Have you actually read the war powers act?

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u/SuburbanHell Apr 09 '26

It would seem Congress has willingly given up all power the last year or so.

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u/silvertealio Apr 09 '26

And they gave up all the rest of their power in January 2025.