After Trump administration officials provided a closed-door briefing to the entire Senate on the Iran strikes — a presentation that did not resolve the underlying political debate — Senate ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday asserted that the War Powers Act is unconstitutional, pushing back forcefully against the lawmakers in both parties who are invoking the law in an effort to … ...

The Senate voted against the war powers resolution, which would have required the president to seek congressional approval for any new hostilities against Iran.

The War Powers Act was enacted in the shadow of the Vietnam War, amid a public backlash to the prolonged conflict that fueled broad support in Congress for limiting a president’s power to wage war.

His move has reignited a decades-old debate over the War Powers Act, a law passed in the early 1970s meant to divide authority over military action between Congress and the president.

Over the weekend, Trump sent congressional leaders a brief letter outlining his legal authority to approve the strikes under the War Powers Act. The letter does not mention any intelligence or ...

But war powers do not require us to make this choice. The original understanding does not support the view that the nation cannot wage war abroad without congressional authorization.

To be fair, no president has recognized the legitimacy of the War Powers Act since it was passed in 1973. The Supreme Court has not spoken.

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Former President Barack Obama is among several presidents who have ordered military actions similar to President Donald Trump's and attracted backlash for skirting Congress’s authority.

Congress Won’t Act on the Iran Strikes. That Doesn’t Make Them Legal. Regardless of how lawmakers react, experts say the president’s actions were unlawful.