The danger of an unrestrained president to the world - Oona A. Hathaway
US President Donald Trump did not seek approval from Congress or the UN Security Council, as required by law, before ordering military strikes against Iran. Photo / Anna Rose Layden, The New York Times
THE FACTS
Trump's unlawful strikes on Iran have laid bare the absence of any effective legal constraints on a US president to use deadly force in the world.
Acting on President Trump's orders, the US military conducted a strike early Sunday morning against three Iranian nuclear. Few knew of the strikes in advance. Trump did not seek advance approval from Congress or the UN Security Council, as required by law. The unlawful strikes have thus laid bare the dangerous absence of any effective legal constraints – whether domestic or international – on the decision of the American president to use deadly force anywhere in the world.
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