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The Court seems to buy the unitary executive theory, so it would likely say that the war powers do contain an unregulable core, which precludes prosecutions related to things like the Abbottabad raid. But there may be a domestic vs. foreign distinction on what falls in the core, as Jackson suggested

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(As an aside, it would be deeply funny if the emanations and penumbras of the Third Amendment ended up being the reason the President couldn't use SEAL Team Six to assassinate his political rivals -- at least while they're in the US.)

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