Congress must assert its authority immediately and resolve Trump’s war illegal—a new foreign war, it should be recalled, that Trump promised Americans before being elected he would not undertake.

It is being done, moreover, in complete disregard of the United States Constitution and the separation of power. Congress was not consulted. Rules matter. Laws matter.

a rules based world order that, until now, the United States not only created but steadfastly sustained for over eighty years in the face of the possibility of nuclear war in which nuclear weapons became and are still available today to both big and, now, small powers.

is in further alignment with Russia’s Putin and other demagogues against a rules based world order that says instead that a big power can do whatever it wants with a small power—

“It is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs.” The Federalist No. 29, at 186-187 (Alexander Hamilton).