A number of lawmakers are pushing for an amendment into the 2020
National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) clarifying that Congress has never authorized a war against Iran, and that President Trump would need to get authorization before attacking Iran.
This has been a recurring subject of debate with the Trump
Administration, as officials argue that they have all the authorization
they need, but are being extremely coy about what legal justification
they’d actually use.
That’s where the amendment would come in, by preemptively defunding any
unauthorized war against Iran. This is seen as increasingly important
after a War Powers Act resolution pointed out Yemen was unauthorized,
President Trump vetoed it and kept the war going.
The power of the purse is one real way Congress could flex its
Constitutional war-making authority, and many believe that they’re
virtually obliged to try this, since all other efforts to tamp down
unilateral war-making aren’t working.
I dare you start a war with Iran…..and lose your re-election!
But Netanyahu ordered him to … .
That’s totally irrelevant, Vic. DJT isn’t about to start a war with Iran, just because the meddling Israeli PM Bibzy Nutty&Yahoo ordered him to do so. He doesn’t want a war with Iran and Iran doesn’t want a war with us .. That’s all what matters.
The presidential election starts next year with the Democrat primaries, followed by the general elections; and DJT isn’t about to derail his re-election. You need to remember that DJT won the presidency by campaigning as a peacemaker .. He hasn’t started any war with anyone. If he starts one with Iran, he’ll certainly lose his chances of re-election in November, 2020. Therefore, Nutty&Yahoo’s order to attack Iran’s completely irrelevant, since DJT’s relationship with the corrupt PM is souring.
I agree with every word you said . Trumps hasn’t started any wars and his base trusted him to be peace maker but the two administrations before Trump started many wars and they both were elected twice . Non the less Trump probably would not get by with the same crimes those establishment presidents got by with . Trump is in the process of destroying the establishment . He absolutely has to keep his base and even expand it . If he is ever going drain the swamp . I can see the CIA gone forever . The FBI greatly weakened . Not because of Trump but they have done it to them selves . The CIA was started to protect us but has turned into a powerful criminal organization that has been caught over and over again and again committing so many crimes all over the world that the Mafia looks like Sunday school teachers compared to the CIA . We have to get rid of the whole bunch
It drops the bombs on Iran or else it gets the hose agan. IT DOES WHAT IT”S TOLD!!!
My sentiments EXACTLY!
Israel does not care if Trump wins or loses so long as it is certain the next clown elected will do what it wants which is imperative.
That’s not going to work, even if it passes. All the US and/or Israel has to do is foment a casus belli that causes an armed conflict and Congress will rush to “support our troops.”
The only way this has any chance of working is if Congress passes a law – with enough votes to overrule a Presidential veto – that explicitly amends the War Powers Act to prevent the President from engaging in *any* military actions against Iran without Congressional approval.
And that won’t pass because the argument will be made “what happens if Congress is not in session when hostilities break out” – which is precisely why the WPA allows the President to act for 60 days after a 48-hour notice to Congress.
There’s no way Congress can prevent a war with Iran, because there is no way Congress can simply refuse to support US forces – or Israel – if hostilities break out and there is no way to prevent hostilities from breaking out if the Deep State and Israel want it to.
Get serious, in other words.
;”Trump Needs Congressional Permission Before Attacking Iran”
You are wrong law makers. Trump needs only Israeli command to go to war