CBS Teams Up With Dem to Clutch Pearls Over Iran Strike Legality
The debate over the commander-in-chief’s powers versus the U.S. Congress’s has increased following President Trump’s Operation: Midnight Hammer airstrikes on Iran. On Monday, CBS Mornings Plus invited Colorado’s Democratic Congressman Jason Crow to push Congress to claw back their authority to authorize military strikes, but was this motivated by who the sitting President was?
On Saturday, the U.S. Air Force was sent out to drop bunker bombs on Iran’s underground nuclear facility at Fordow and was successful. Mostly Democratic members of Congress were pushing that this decision from the President was “unconstitutional,” according to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), as cited by CBS during the segment:
Not only is this news that I’ve just heard the second alarming that all of you have just heard, but it is so grossly unconstitutional. All of you know. That the only entity that can take this country to war is the U.S. Congress. The President does not have the right!
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