How Far Can the President Go?
New York, Sept. 25—The feeling grows that the time is at hand to straighten out the mess, the centerpiece of which is the War Powers Act. As so often is the case when there is a quandary respecting the correctness of a piece of legislation, the sought-after solution is to turn the question over to the Supreme Court, to stop worrying about it. And then, as often happens, conservatives look to the Supreme Court to act in one way, liberals look to it to act in another way. And, as also happens, the position of the two camps has reversed in the past couple of generations.
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