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“I think the intrusion upon the war powers and foreign policy powers of the president is utterly unprecedented,” Ensign said.

But then the alleged isolationist peacenik Donald Trump has been itching to use war powers since he became president the first time.

In February 2022, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich released a legal opinion claiming the state was under “invasion” by violent cartels and could invoke war powers to deploy National Guard troops to its southern border.

In recent years, she’s been able to gain allies in her quest to rein in presidents’ expansive war powers — partly because elements of both parties had moved her way.

"Ask yourself who is the real enemy? A young low-level national guardsmen? Or the administration that is waging war in Ukraine, a non-NATO nation, against nuclear Russia without war powers?"