AOC Flotte Daman Trump on Iran’s strike without the approval of Congress

The progressive champion representing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a handful of other Democrats quickly launched the prospect of dismaying President Donald Trump for having launched a military strike on Iran without authorization from the Congress.

“The disastrous decision of the president to bomb Iran without authorization is a serious violation of the Constitution and the powers of the Congress War,” wrote on the social networks of four terms on Saturday evening, shortly after the president announced the attack on Iranian nuclear installations.

Ocasio-Cortez accused Trump “has risked impulsively to launch a war that can trap us for generations. These are absolutely and clearly indictment.”

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Democratic representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez launched the president of Donald Trump after the president launched a military strike on Iranian nuclear installations without approval from the congress. (Getty Images)

The Democrat representative Sean Casten of Illinois also argued that the president’s order to bomb Iran’s nuclear sites without asking for the approval of the congress could be considered as an “unambiguously unambiguous offense”.

Casten, a representative of four mandates whose district covers southwest of Chicago and the surrounding suburbs, wrote Saturday evening on social networks That “it is not the merits of the Iranian nuclear program…. To be clear, I do not dispute that Iran is a nuclear threat.”

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But he stressed that “no president has the power to bomb another country which does not constitute an imminent threat to the United States without the approval of the Congress. It is an impeccable offense without ambiguity”.

Vice-president JD Vance, from left to left, President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and defense secretary Pete Hegseth during a speech to the nation in the east house in the White House in Washington, June 21, 2025. (Carlos Barria / Reuters / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“I am not saying that we have the votes to welcome,” added Casten. “I say you don’t do this without the approval of the congress.”

The calls for dismissal are the most visible and the most distant, the representation of party anger with Trump for having taken unilateral measures against Iran.

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The minority head of the Hakeem Jeffries House in New York, the best democrat in the Chamber, wrote that the president had “not managed to request the authorization of the Congress for the use of the military force and to risk an American tangle in a potentially disastrous war in the Middle East”.

“Donald Trump supports the total and total responsibility of any negative consequence which stems from his unilateral military action,” added Jeffries in a press release.

Although the executive power technically does not have the legal power to order a foreign military attack without the approval of the congress, the previous presidents, in particular Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Trump during his first mandate, launched comparable military actions in Libya, Sudan, Afghanistan and Iran.

“First of all, the president clearly has the power to act to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction,” said Vice-President JD Vance in an interview on “Meet the Press” on NBC News on Sunday. “The idea that this was outside the presidential authority, I think that any really serious legal person would tell you that this is not true.”

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And the Republican representative Mike Lawler of New York, in an interview on Sunday morning on “Fox and Friends”, criticized the indictment of Ocasio-Cortez and other Democrats.

“For my colleagues who now demand dismissal, it’s absolutely absurd,” said Lawler. “Barack Obama attacked Libya, Syria, Pakistan, Yemen during his mandate and has never once called for dismissal. So these people really reach new levels of disturbance of the decision yesterday.”

The Congress has not really declared war since 1941, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during the Second World War, and legal researchers have long been divided on the question of whether the president has the power to unilaterally launch a military strike.