Trump Justice Department: Wars are off limits to court review

http://m.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-justice-department-wars-are-off-limits-to-court-review/article/2638828


This case gives the meaning of “quaint” to the statement of Abraham Lincoln in 2nd paragraph below, as William Polk wrote here:

The reason why the men who wrote the Constitution believed so strongly about limiting the power of the executive, despite their admiration for the reasoning of John Locke and Sir William Blackstone was their fear of tyranny.  While the Supreme Court made no further comment on this issue, the then Congressman Abraham Lincoln almost half a century later, in 1848,  gave what apparently everyone assumed to have been the intent of the Founders when he wrote that:


"The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons.  Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object.  This, our Constitutional] Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us…"


                              Abraham Lincoln in Letter to William Herndon on February 15, 1848.