Outstanding members of the United States Democratic Party have denounced that the attack of this morning against Iran’s nuclear facilities represents a violation of the Constitution as it is a military action against another country without explicit permission of Congress.
In 1973, after decades of American intervention in Vietnam and other parts of Asia, legislators approved the resolution of war powers to reaffirm their authority over military action. However, its effectiveness has always been under dispute, since if the president decides to undertake at his own risk, a military action, a hypothetical resolution against the Congress would end up subject to a presidential veto, which can only be annulled by a majority of two thirds of the votes in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
In any case, the leader of the Democratic minority in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, has immediately urged Trump to give explanations to the legislative. “No president should be able to take this nation, unilaterally, to something as transcendental as a war with erratic threats and without strategy,” he said.
“Republican Trump must account for the American congress and people. The danger of a broader, prolonged and devastating war has increased dramatically,” said Schumer.
The minority leader of the House of Representatives, the Lower House of the Congress, Hakeem Jeffries, has also demanded that those responsible for the Trump administration to report in a “complete and immediate and immediate way to the legislative of what happened as well as future operations after what he described as a” unilateral action “against the facilities of Fordo, Natanz and Isfahán.
