Leroy Torres joined the United States Army Reserve (“Reserve”) in 1989. Petitioner’s Appendix at 2a (opinion of Texas Court of Appeals). In 1998, the Texas Department of Public Safety (“DPS”) hired him as a state trooper. Id. In 2007, the Reserve...
war powers
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Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the U.S. Constitution grants Congress the power to declare war. The President, meanwhile, derives the power to direct the military after a Congressional declaration of war from Article II, Section 2, which names the...