Republican senators proved yet again that their spines are made of pudding on Wednesday, rejecting a resolution to limit President Donald Trump’s war powers, the AP reported.
The flip-flop came after Trump blew up at GOP senators for voting “yes” on a similar bill just one day earlier. He got into a shouting match with Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy, calling him a “lunatic” for voting with…
President Donald Trump and outgoing Republican Senator Bill Cassidy got into a shouting match over the war in Iran at a GOP lunch Wednesday.
Cassidy told Morgan Rimmer of CNN that he “lost his temper.” One source said that Trump called Cassidy a “lunatic.”
CNN reports that Bill Cassidy lost his temper with Trump and "berated the president for what has transpired in Iran, for not being clear…
The Senate passed a war powers resolution on Iran for the first time in nearly four months of conflict. Under the 1973 law, it may already be legally binding on Trump.
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Four Republican lawmakers broke party lines Wednesday to pass a resolution curbing Donald Trump’s war powers in his military campaign in Iran.
The four Republicans who joined Democrats were Representatives Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Tom Barrett of Michigan, and Warren Davidson of Ohio.
The measure to remove U.S. armed forces from hostilities with Iran passed…
The Senate voted 50-47 Tuesday to advance a resolution that would force President Donald Trump to withdraw from the Iran war — the first time in eight attempts that a war powers challenge has gotten this far. The decisive vote came from Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who lost his primary to a Trump-backed challenger just […]
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. House Thursday rejected a proposal to rein in President Donald Trump’s months-long military actions in Iran that have left more than a dozen U.S. military members dead, while killing thousands of civilians and displacing millions in the Middle East, according to third-party monitors. The measure, known as the War Powers Resolution, […]
WASHINGTON — The seventh effort to stop President Donald Trump’s military campaign in Iran until he obtains congressional approval failed Wednesday in the U.S. Senate. The vote marked the first test for Senate Republicans’ support for a War Powers Resolution after the expiration of the statute’s 60-day period granted to the president for military operations. […]
Senator John Fetterman was the deciding vote Wednesday to dismiss the Democrats’ seventh attempt to advance a resolution under the War Powers Act to stop President Donald Trump’s disastrous military campaign in Iran.
It was the first time the Senate has voted on a measure to end the war in Iran since the conflict crossed the 60-day deadline. After that point, the War Powers Act requires the…
A Yale Law School professor who has spent more than two decades advising the U.S. State Department on international law is now publicly accusing President Donald Trump of waging an “illegal war” against Iran while continuing to serve on a State Department advisory committee. Oona A. Hathaway, a professor at Yale Law School and Executive […]
Under the War Powers Resolution, Trump must now terminate the hostilities against Iran he began two months ago. He seems set against doing so.
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As former judge advocates, it was our responsibility while on active duty to advise on the legal demands of and limits on senior officers’ authority and responsibility.
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La senadora Tammy Duckworth , de 58 años, participó en la guerra de Irak como piloto de helicóptero, compromiso militar que pagó en su propia carne. Su helicóptero se estrelló tras ser alcanzado por un disparo y tuvieron que amputarle ambas piernas. Unos 20 años después, esta senadora demócrata por Illinois **destaca por su oposición a la guerra desencadenada por Israel y Estados Unidos…
A new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) finds that the expansion of US sanctions against Cuba beginning in 2017 were likely the primary cause of a major increase in infant mortality in Cuba. The report, by Alexander Main, Joe Sammut, Mark Weisbrot, and Guillaume Long examines the unprecedented increase in Cuba’s infant mortality rate (IMR), which soared by 148 percent…
According to The Hill, in an article typical of U.S. media, Trump’s war on Iran is totally legal for 60 days if Congress does nothing, after which it becomes illegal, unless Congress has explicitly OK’d it. This is supposedly because of…
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WASHINGTON — The approval gap on President Donald Trump’s war in Iran narrowed slightly Thursday in the U.S. House, when a War Powers Resolution gained a handful of votes, though still falling just short of passage. The effort to force Trump to seek congressional authorization before further action in Iran failed 213-214, with one Republican voting […]
The House of Representatives voted down a war powers resolution that would have restricted President Trump’s war in Iran by just one vote Thursday, 214–213.
Representative Thomas Massie was the lone Republican to vote in favor of the measure, while Republican Representative Warren Davidson voted present and three Republicans abstained.
Every Democrat voted for the resolution except for…
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are largely staying silent about how they will vote on the reauthorization of a warrantless surveillance law. (Nathan…
In the final year of President George W. Bush’s second term, his administration asked Congress for $190 billion to continue funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that had long since turned into quagmires. On Wednesday, the Pentagon asked the White House for $200 billion to fund the war on Iran, which is not even three weeks old.
That amount doesn’t go as far as it did two decades ago, of…
The U.S. military continues maritime strikes on alleged drug smugglers and may now be hitting targets on land. Brian Finucane analyzes Trump’s latest War Powers report.
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The Trump administration has opened Pandora’s box by this war of choice.
A similar War Powers Resolution failed in the U.S. Senate Wednesday when all but one Republican, Kentucky’s Rand Paul, voted against it.
WASHINGTON — The top Democrat on the U.S. House Budget Committee sent a letter to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on Thursday, asking its experts to determine how much the war in Iran could cost. “The Constitution grants Congress both the power of the purse and the responsibility of declaring war,” Pennsylvania Rep. Brendan Boyle […]
WASHINGTON — House Republicans and a handful of Democrats followed the Senate in blocking a measure Thursday to stop President Donald Trump from furthering the war in Iran without authorization from Congress. The joint war with Israel that began six days ago has already claimed the lives of six U.S. troops and injured and killed […]
House Republicans and a handful of Democrats followed the Senate in blocking a measure Thursday to stop President Donald Trump from furthering the war in Iran without authorization from Congress.
The House voted 219-212 against a war powers resolution Thursday, refusing to place limits on President Trump’s powers as he continues his war on Iran alongside Israel. Four Democratic representatives voted with Republicans to kill the measure.
The resolution, co-sponsored by GOP Representative Thomas Massie and Democrat Ro Khanna, would immediately block any U.S. military action without…
Past conflicts eroded Congress’s ability to decide when to go to war. Donald Trump’s attack on Iran destroyed it.
On Wednesday, the Senate refused to block President Donald Trump from using further military force on Iran, as a war powers resolution failed by a vote of 52–48.
Senator John Fetterman was the only Democrat to vote against the resolution. Senator Rand Paul was the only Republican to vote for the resolution. This was Congress’s first vote on the war.
The news came on the fifth day of a joint…
On paper, declaring war is reserved for Congress. The Tonkin Gulf Resolution turned a constitutional requirement into a legislative habit of looking away.
President Donald Trump’s new war in Iran was launched without congressional authorization or proof of an imminent threat. The war could…