Article 1 of the United States Constitution gives Congress, not the president, the power to declare war. That’s not a suggestion but the document that everyone swears to uphold.
Trump didn’t go to Congress. He neither asked nor debated, instead he told the Gang of Eight
Eight people! And dropped bombs on a sovereign nation. By acting alone, he has violated the Constitution’s assignment of war powers to Congress, seized authority that does not belong to him, and manufactured the conditions for claims of expanded presidential authority at home for the American people.
And Republicans who spent years howling about executive overreach? Silent. Or cheering. Lindsey Graham called it “necessary and long justified.” The same Lindsey Graham who once said a President starting a war alone would be an impeachable offense. The Constitution doesn’t have a party affiliation. Or at least it shouldn’t.
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