Trump has shrugged at the power of Congress to dictate what he can and can’t do, in war and other matters. He made only a brief mention of Iran in his State of the Union address last week, treating lawmakers’ support as an afterthought.

The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, but in 1973, in the wake of the Vietnam War, Congress enacted the War Powers Resolution, or the War Powers Act, in an effort to share that power using collective judgment when deploying troops that also allows presidents to take action under certain circumstances,

When you bomb a country and take out its leader, that’s an act of war.

Congresswoman Nancy Mace announced Tuesday that she has introduced a new resolution,directing the House Committee on Ethics to preserve and publicly release bo