03/07/2026 Clocking It: The Political Rundown — The Verdict Earlier this week, Halfway Clocked examined a question as old as the Constitution itself: Can a president start a war without congressional approval? The answer lives in the space between what the Founders built and what history has bent. Article I gives Congress the power to declare war. Article II makes the president commander in chief. … Continue reading Transgressing the Line: Who Stops a President at War?