Andrew P. Napolitano has questions about the violations of the U.S. Constitution and established jurisprudence and the conduct of Congress and the Trump administration.
Reckless force doesn’t work, as the devastating human and economic consequences of the Middle East war shows, writes William Hartung. Passing a $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget will mean endless war.
The power of the purse is the surest way Congress can stop the Iran war, or any war. If Congress funds war, Congress authorizes it. If Congress cuts off funds, a war will end.
In a liberal democracy, the government can only morally do what the governed have affirmatively authorized it to do, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. This is not the case with Trump’s war on Iran.
Elizabeth Vos on the social-media suppression of information that could help U.S service people refuse to join the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran as fears grow that Trump will send ground troops into the conflict.
With more than 1,000 civilian deaths in Iran, the U.S. secretary of war said the U.S. has loosened the rules of military engagement. “We are punching them while they’re down, which is exactly how it should be,” he said.
If the U.S. gets into the business of congressional ratification of presidentially initiated wars, it will continue the slow and inexorable normalization of presidential force, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. That’s not what the Constitution requires.
Scott Ritter joins The World This Week to discuss the U.S. and Israel’s war of aggression to overthrow the Iranian government with no credible rationale or legal authority, unleashing a conflagration that could alter history.