Constitution<\/a> is crystal clear: Congress holds the power to \u201cdeclare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water.\u201d While presidents have taken a loose interpretation of what counts as war and what counts as an authorization, there is no question as to what branch of government has the power to authorize armed conflict. Congress has formally declared war 11 times in U.S. history, including World War I and World War II.<\/p>\n\n\tThe reporter who asked Trump about seeking congressional approval brought up that the war was now two months old for a reason. The War Powers Resolution of 1973 holds that if Congress doesn\u2019t authorize the use of force against another nation within 60 days of when it is first initiated, the president must terminate the use of force. Trump is trying to skirt the law by informing Congress that the conflict is over, maintaining that operations halted when the two countries agreed to a temporary ceasefire in early April.<\/p>\n
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\n\t\u201cLet me just tell you, on the war powers, so many presidents, as you know, have gone and exceeded it,\u201d Trump added on Friday. \u201cIt\u2019s never been used. It\u2019s never been adhered to. And every other president considered it totally unconstitutional. And we agree with that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tIn the same press gaggle, Trump said that he was considering resuming large scale artillery warfare against Iran to \u201cjust blast the hell out of them and finish them forever.\u201d The threat came just moments after informing the press that Iran had presented a new deal, but that he was \u201cnot satisfied\u201d with it. \u201cSo we\u2019ll see what happens. Iran wants to make a deal because they have no military left, essentially, and they want to make a deal. But I\u2019m not satisfied with it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The president and his administration are still struggling to justify the war against Iran In his latest instance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2973,8218,38,8,96,9,7],"class_list":{"0":"post-23694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-constitution","9":"tag-controversy","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-iran-war","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116507191750091783","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}