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The representative of progressive champion Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a handful of other Democrats quickly launched the prospect of the president’s indictment Donald Trump For having launched a military strike on Iran without authorization from the congress.
“The disastrous decision of the president to bomb Iran without authorization is a serious violation of the Constitution and the powers of the Congress War,” wrote on the social networks of four terms on Saturday evening, shortly after the president announced the attack on Iranian nuclear installations.
Occasion Loaded that Trump “has risen impulsively to launch a war that can trap us for generations. These are absolutely and clearly accusation.
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Democratic representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez launched the president of Donald Trump after the president launched a military strike on Iranian nuclear installations without approval from the congress. (Getty Images)
The Democrat representative Sean Casten de l’Illinois also argued that the president’s order to bombard Iran’s nuclear sites Without asking for the approval of the congress could be considered as an “impenetrable offense without ambiguity”.
Casten, a representative of four mandates whose district covers southwest of Chicago and the surrounding suburbs, wrote Saturday evening on social networks That “it is not the merits of the Iranian nuclear program…. To be clear, I do not dispute that Iran is a nuclear threat.”
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But he stressed that “no president has the power to bomb another country which does not constitute an imminent threat to the United States without the approval of the Congress. It is an impeccable offense without ambiguity”.
Vice-president JD Vance, from left to left, President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and defense secretary Pete Hegseth during a speech to the nation in the east house in the White House in Washington, June 21, 2025. (Carlos Barrias / Rutters / Bloomberg Vitty Images)
“I am not saying that we have the votes to welcome,” added Casten. “I say you don’t do this without the approval of the congress.”
The calls for dismissal are the most visible and the most distant, the representation of party anger with Trump for having taken unilateral measures against Iran.
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The minority head of the Hakeem Jeffries House in New York, the best democrat in the Chamber, wrote that the president had “not managed to request the authorization of the Congress for the use of the military force and to risk an American tangle in a potentially disastrous war in the Middle East”.
“Donald Trump supports the total and total responsibility of any negative consequence which stems from his unilateral military action,” added Jeffries in a press release.
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While the executive power has technically not the legal power to order a foreign military attack without the approval of the congress, previous presidents, including Bill Clinton, Barack Obama And Trump in his first mandate, launched comparable military actions in Libya, Sudan, Afghanistan and Iran.
The Congress has not really declared war since 1941, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during the Second World War, and legal researchers have long been divided on the question of whether the president has the power to unilaterally launch a military strike.
