Trump Ordered Strikes on Iran Without a Vote in Congress
It’s the clearest sign yet of a constitutional shift decades in the making.
The Decision That Was Supposed to Belong to Congress
The United States launched airstrikes on Iranian targets this week. The order came from the White House. Congress never voted on it.
Under the Constitution, the power to declare war does not belong to the president. It belongs to Congress, the branch meant to represent the American people in the gravest…
