Federal Judge Slams War President

AP: Michigan

A United States Federal Judge has declared that the President and his administration have over stepped the bounds provided by the Constitution and Federal Law by claiming that Presidential War Powers provide the President with additional power that abrogates the express power of the Executive delineated in the Constitution.

After more than three years of war, which has been termed a Civil War, the administration has taken it upon itself to "violate express clauses of the Constitution, especially Art. IV Section 2, as well as Federal Law," according to the Federal Judge who heard the case."

There simply is no justification for expanded "war powers" in the Constitution," the judge said, and "therefore the Emancipation Proclamation must be struck down."Detroit Free Press, 1863.