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Washington, DC – While the President of the United States, Donald Trump, greeted what he called “spectacular military success” strikes He authorized Iran, the Democrats were quick to accuse of overcoming his authority.
Many criticisms accused Trump late Saturday of raping the American Constitution Saturday by launching military attacks Against Iranian nuclear sites without the approval of the congress.
“Trump said he would end the wars; now he trained America in one,” said senator Christopher Van Hollen Junior in a statement.
“His actions constitute a clear violation of our Constitution – ignore the requirement that only Congress has the power to declare war.”
Before the American attacks, the legislators of the two main parties pushed measures to force Trump to approach the congress before launching strikes.
The American Constitution gives the congress the power to declare war or to authorize the use of force for specific purposes.
Trump’s “Make America Great Again (Maga) was also vehement in his opposition in the United States who joined the War of Israel. He stressed that Trump won the elections on the promise not to commit Washington to another war in the Middle East. They want Trump to focus on national issues, especially the economy.
“Merale of dismissal”
The authority of the legislators on soldiers was devoted more to the Resolution of war powers From 1973, which slowed down the powers of the war of the president.
Progressive deputy Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Trump had violated the constitution and resolution of war powers.
“He risked impulsively to launch a war that can trap us for generations. These are absolutely and clearly indictment reasons,” she said.
The president is the commander -in -chief of the armed forces, so that he can order attacks, but his decisions must be in the directives of what is authorized by the Congress.
However, the president can order the army in the case of a “sudden attack” or to respond to emergencies.
Several Democrats have quickly noted that Iran’s nuclear installations, which have operated for years, have not made up of an imminent threat to the United States.
The United States intelligence community confirmed in an assessment in March that Iran does not build a nuclear weapon.
Trump has relied more and more on the executive powers by governing at the national level, and now he seems to be sidelined in the congress in his foreign policy.
But with the Republicans who control the Senate and the House of Representatives, legislators have few tools to influence its military decision. The dismissal is almost out of the question.
President Trump sending American troops to bomb Iran without the consent of the Congress is a blatant violation of our Constitution. pic.twitter.com/pqzaes4K19
– Congress Rashid Tlaib (@raphida) June 22, 2025
No legal justification for strikes
Legislators have Bills presented Under the resolution of war powers to prohibit attacks against Iran without the approval of the congress, but Trump is likely to veto the proposals if they adopt.
The congress could cancel the veto with two thirds by majority in the House and the Senate, but Trump strikes have enough support to make this result unlikely.
The American president has not provided legal justification for strikes, but he is likely to assert that he was responding to an urgent situation or cites an existing military authorization.
In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in 2001, the Congress adopted a law allowing the president of the time George W Bush to launch what would become the world “war against terrorism”.
Millions of people have been killed and devastated societies due to American wars on Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, among others, within the framework of the so-called “war on terrorism”. It also cost billions of dollars and the lives of thousands of American soldiers.
In 2002, legislators approved another authorization to allow Iraq invasion A year later.
These laws, known as authorization for the use of military force (AUMF), remain in place, and the previous presidents invoked them to justify attacks which have not been specifically approved by the Congress.
Brian Finucan, principal advisor to the American program of the International Crisis group and former lawyer for the State Department, said that the attack on Iran was “obviously illegal”.
“Even in the doctrine of the prevailing executive branches, this is likely to constitute a” war “requiring the authorization of the congress,” he wrote in an article on social networks.
Declaration of representative Ilhan Omar on the American bombing of Iran:
“Iran strikes, ordered by President Trump and executed without authorization from the Congress, mark a dangerous and reckless climbing of an already volatile conflict in the Middle East.
“The military strikes will not …
– Rep. Ilhan Omar (@ ılhan) June 22, 2025
The Progressive Senator Key Bernie Sanders was speaking during a rally in Oklahoma when Trump announced the attack.
While Sanders spoke to the crowd of American strikes, the participants began to sing: “More war!”
“It’s so unconstitutional,” he said. “You all know that the only entity that can take this War country is the US Congress; The president does not have this right. »»
Former Democratic President of the Chamber, Nancy Pelosi, said that legislators “demand the answers” of the administration.
“Tonight, the president ignored the Constitution by unilaterally engaging our soldiers without authorization from Congress,” she said in an article on social networks.
