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Vietnam-era Hawaii judge decided which bombing missions were ok (not flame lol)
| Tim Walz's inner monologue | 06/27/25 |
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Date: June 27th, 2025 4:29 PM Author: Tim Walz's inner monologue 361 F.Supp. 553
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER JUDD, District Judge.
Plaintiffs seek a determination that the President of the United States and the military personnel under his direction and control may not engage in intensive combat operations in Cambodia and elsewhere in Indochina in the absence of Congressional authorization required under Article I, § 8, Clause 11 of the Constitution. The case is before the court on plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment for lack of genuine issues of material fact. Additionally, plaintiffs seek declaratory and/or injunctive relief. Plaintiffs have also moved to add as plaintiff another Air Force officer on active duty, Captain Donald Dawson, and to stay the defendants from ordering him to engage in bombing missions over Cambodia.
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There are no disputed issues of material fact. The issues relate to the interpretation of Congressional acts.
Even if part of the fighting in Cambodia is being conducted by North Vietnamese troops rather than by Khmer insurgents, the court has found that there is no Congressional authorization to fight in Cambodia after the withdrawal of American troops and the release of American prisoners of war. Even though the executive and the military may consider Cambodian bombing *566 an effective means of enforcing paragraph 20 of the Paris Agreement of January 27, 1973, it does not appear that Congress has given its authority for such acts.
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