How we got to a situation where a President can reasonably claim that it is lawful, without congressional approval, to bomb a ...

Bipartisan lawmakers condemn Trump's decision to strike Iran's nuclear facilities as unconstitutional, with calls to return ...

Representatives Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, and Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, introduced a bipartisan House resolution last week in a bid to curb President Donald Trump's ability to ...

The Senate voted 53 to 47 to reject a resolution to block the president’s use of force against Iran without congressional ...

Donald Trump isn’t the first president to order military strikes without congressional approval. But his decision to bomb ...

The vote against the measure was mostly along party lines, with Republicans opposing it and Democrats almost unanimously in ...

America cannot afford another endless war in the Middle East. Ad Policy A veiled Iranian art student waves a country flag while standing on symbolic debris of a destroyed building as she performs in ...

Sen. Kaine says he won’t stop holding the president to the ‘letter of the law.’ Perhaps he should spend more time studying it ...

With large Democratic majorities in both the House and Senate, Congress overrode a veto by President Richard Nixon and enacted the 1973 War Powers Resolution. "We live in an age of undeclared war ...

The War Powers Act of 1973 allows Congress to use this avenue, but because this type of resolution does not have to be signed by the president, it’s largely symbolic.

Sen. Tim Kaine continues plan for war powers resolution despite Israel-Iran ceasefire, arguing the pause allows for ...

Congress has failed at one of its most central constitutional duties: setting the parameters of war for the military.