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By Week’s End, Trump’s War Will Be Plainly Illegal
By Erwin Chemerinsky | April 27, 2026, 5:02 a.m. ET
Mr. Chemerinsky is the dean of the law school at the University of California, Berkeley.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/opinion/trump-iran-war-powers.html
President Trump’s war with Iran is almost certainly illegal: Congress hasn’t declared war or authorized it by statute, and it wasn’t precipitated by an imminent attack or a national emergency. If the war continues through Friday without congressional approval, it will clearly be illegal, having passed the 60-day threshold and the 48-hour notice period that the president is given, under the War Powers Resolution of 1973, to conduct this kind of military operation.
Whether you support or oppose this war — or, as Mr. Trump has called it, this “excursion” — time will be up. And it is the obligation of the federal courts to say so.
The resolution, often called the War Powers Act, was adopted during the Vietnam War. It applies when American troops are engaged in hostilities or in situations in which hostilities are impending — such as during this war with Iran.
Despite Mr. Trump’s saying, on Thursday, “Don’t rush me” regarding the war’s timeline, the act requires that the president withdraw our military from participation in hostilities after 60 days unless Congress has declared war, has authorized a 60-day extension or is physically unable to meet as a result of an armed attack against the United States. The president can extend this by 30 days if he certifies to Congress in writing that an “unavoidable military necessity” regarding the safety of our armed forces requires it.
The Iran war began on Feb. 28. For these purposes, the clock started running on March 2, when the president formally notified Congress of his military action against Iran. Congress has not declared war or done anything to authorize the war, and its refusal to do so in no way constitutes the requisite approval to continue the conflict — the War Powers Resolution doesn’t come with a check box for opting out.
If the president and Iran’s leaders don’t reach an agreement to end the war before the deadline, every indication is that Mr. Trump and the Republican majorities in the House and Senate will ignore the act. To try to justify continuing the war, there’s a good chance they’ll come up with some new form of legal-sounding double talk. If that’s the case, it will be left to the courts to uphold the law. Suits should be brought, including by service members and by members of Congress, to enforce it.
Unfortunately, recent efforts to enforce the act have been dismissed by the courts as involving political questions that they cannot decide. For example, in Crockett v. Reagan, in 1982, a Federal District Court dismissed a lawsuit by members of Congress that challenged U.S. military assistance to El Salvador. In Doe v. Bush, in 2002, a Federal District Court dismissed a suit to enjoin President George W. Bush from invading Iraq. The court said that the issues raised were political questions “beyond the authority of a federal court to resolve.” Kucinich v. Obama, in 2011, challenged America’s military actions in Libya as violating the act and the Constitution. A Federal District Court dismissed the case.
These decisions make meaningless Congress’s war powers. In the face of congressional inaction, and without judicial enforcement, there are realistically no checks on the president’s ability to unilaterally wage war. If the federal judiciary, up to and including the Supreme Court, won’t uphold its responsibility here, it will nullify our Constitution’s design that two branches of government should be involved when our country goes to war.
The courts haven’t always been so reluctant. The Supreme Court decided several cases arising from the Quasi War, an undeclared naval war with France between 1798 and 1800: In Talbot v. Seeman (1801), the court emphasized the importance of Congress’s involvement in any type of war. Chief Justice John Marshall wrote that the “whole powers o
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Jeezus, THGR, spamming the board again?
You were asking what you were wrong about? Just about every one of your threads is wrong, irrelevant, or misdirected.
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Robert Barnes' interview on Trump's advancing dementia. (If Barnes' description is correct, fronto- temporal dementia.)
According to him, life in the WH is like living in an abusive household. Everyone is tiptoeing in fear of setting off a rage, not passing along negative news, and not correcting Trump's confabulations.
He made the point that "the left" created such a caricature of Trump that they're oblivious to his very real decline.
THUGR: I told you so. Again and again, I told you so and you didn't listen, did you?
No, bc most of what you posted was either complete hogwash (TRUMPRUSSIACOLLUSION!!) or irrelevant.
John Kennedy was a compulsive womanizer, high on steroids for a back problem and suffering from Cushing's syndrome.
Nixon was a paranoid drinker.
Kissinger was an amoral sociopath.
Johnson was a vicious political infighter concerned about his popularity but clueless about foreign policy and military affairs.
Carter was personally clean but ineffective.
"Billy Bob I feel your pain" Clinton was a personally charming, intelligent sociopath.
Obama was a charming devious CIA tool.
There's a difference between moral and personality defects and disconnection from reality.
Reagan suffered from Alzheimers. USA was governed by his wife.
Biden (most likely) has advanced Parkinson's and dementia. The USA was governed by Sullivan and Blinken.
Trump appears to be suffering from either PTSD or frontotemporal dementia.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Complex that supplies 70% of global critical PCB base targeted in Iranian strike — attack could fracture the already disrupted electronics supply chain
By Etiido Uko | April 27, 2026
A single military strike may increase the cost of your next gadget.
Iran hit the Jubail petrochemical complex in Saudi Arabia on 7th April, bringing the production of high-purity polypropylene ether (PPE) resin, a critical base material for manufacturing PCB laminate, to a complete stop.
Reuters reports that SABIC (Saudi Basic Industries Corporation), which operates in the Jubail complex and accounts for approximately 70% of the global high-purity PPE supply, has been unable to resume production and supply since the event.
The impact of this strike was almost immediate, as is the reality of supply chains, and has rapidly flowed down to all industries downstream of the facility, leading to severe shortages of the critical material.
More at https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/complex-that-supplies-70-pe
rcent-of-global-critical-pcb-base-targeted-in-iranian-strike-attack-could-fracture-the-already-disrupted-electronics-supply-chain
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The Oil Squeeze Tightens
Time is not on the world economy’s side
Paul Krugman
Apr 28, 2026
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-oil-squeeze-tightens
Still on vacation, but taking a brief vacation from the vacation to catch up on news and weigh in on something that is more important than Trump’s ballroom: the ongoing consequences of America’s disastrous war with Iran.
The Strait of Hormuz remains closed. Iran has made a proposal for reopening, but Trump, according to the New York Times, is “dissatisfied” with the plan, among other things because “accepting it could appear to deny Mr. Trump a victory.” Indeed: Claiming victory tends to be hard when you’ve lost, badly.
How long will it take before Trump accepts the reality that he doesn’t have the cards, that in the end his Iran venture will be resolved in a way that leaves Iran stronger and America weaker than before the war? Markets are growing increasingly pessimistic. Here’s the price of Brent crude:
The price drop after the ceasefire was announced has been almost completely reversed. And the longer reality denial lasts, the worse it will get.
As I argued a week ago, ultimately the energy crisis is physical: if the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf remains deeply depressed, at some point there has to be enough “demand destruction” to bring consumption down to match the reduced supply.
That process has barely begun. According to a recent note from Goldman Sachs (no link), here’s what is going on with world oil supply and demand:
Quote:Translation: So far, despite much higher oil prices, demand for oil has fallen by only a fraction of the loss of supply. Instead, the world economy is running by taking oil out of storage. Since there’s only so much oil in the tanks, this can’t go on. So if the Strait doesn’t reopen, prices will have to soar high enough — and inflict sufficient economic damage — to destroy another 11 or more million barrels a day of demand. That’s a lot.
Extreme inventory draws. We estimate that 14.5mb/d of Persian Gulf crude production losses are driving global oil inventories to draw at a record 11-12mb/d pace in April.
But Trump is talking about his ballroom.
This may seem weird, but it makes sense if you view it psychologically. Trump is clearly dissociating. His fragile sense of self-worth depends on constantly believing that he’s a winner while others are losers. Now he’s faced with the reality that he, more or less single-handedly, led America to humiliating strategic defeat.
He’s losing on other fronts, too. The fall of Viktor Orban was a big defeat for Trump. So, I’d argue, is the survival of Ukraine, which appears to be gradually gaining the upper hand over Putin’s Russia despite Trump’s attempt to betray our erstwhile ally.
So Trump is coping by tuning out the war he started, focusing on a grandiose, ego-boosting project that lets him assert dominance over servile Republicans and businesses that are footing the bill.
But while he may be done with his war, the war isn’t done with him — or with the world economy. And the longer his fugue state lasts, the worse the damage will get.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Delusional.
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Be Nice. Don't be a dick. 
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Iran Is Flooded With So Much Unsold Oil That It’s Stashing It in Derelict Tanks
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iran-is-flooded-with-so-much-uns
old-oil-that-its-stashing-it-in-derelict-tanks-ed8e62b1?st=DYjd2T
That doesn't sound anymore like the strategy of the winning team than ordering your own women and children to form rings around power companies and sing.
I know you guys hate Trump so much you want to see America lose this war, but I'm afraid that's not going to happen.
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Quote:So far, the Iran War has cost $200 billion. That's $588 for each American, and there are 340,000,000 of them. It is simply enough that a comedian can explain why Trump didn't win, despite Trump saying a thousand times he won:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Iran Is Flooded With So Much Unsold Oil That It’s Stashing It in Derelict Tanks
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iran-is-flooded-with-so-much-uns
old-oil-that-its-stashing-it-in-derelict-tanks-ed8e62b1?st=DYjd2T
That doesn't sound anymore like the strategy of the winning team than ordering your own women and children to form rings around power companies and sing.
I know you guys hate Trump so much you want to see America lose this war, but I'm afraid that's not going to happen.
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Be Evil. Be a dick.
Bill Maher Flat-Out Blasts Trump on War He Supported: ‘He Keeps Saying We Won And We Didn’t’
Maher’s monologue: Lately, Trump, on the war, has been so chill. Have you noticed that? I know it’s not like him to veer erratically. But a couple of weeks ago, it was, if you don’t do what he was saying today, I’m going to destroy your civilization, bomb the sh*t out of you. Whoa.
And now it’s like, was it really a war? It’s more of a situation, really, I think.
And the problem is he keeps saying we won, and we didn’t. We didn’t.
Hormuz is not open.
The Iranian people did not do an uprising.
The regime is still in place. We did not win. Sorry.
https://www.mediaite.com/media/entertainment/bill-maher-flat-out-blast
s-trump-on-war-he-supported-he-keeps-saying-we-won-and-we-didnt
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Shut up, idiot.
We're tired of being blasted with your anti-American propaganda everyday.
Fuck you, loser. You lost. Everything.
The world you thought you knew is long dead and will never come back.
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Quote:If the Iranian government is stubborn, like the North Vietnamese government was stubborn back in the 1970's, Trump is going to be in the same difficult situation as Nixon was. How did that end for Nixon, I wonder? Can anyone tell me? This guy can:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut up, idiot.
We're tired of being blasted with your anti-American propaganda everyday.
Fuck you, loser. You lost. Everything.
The world you thought you knew is long dead and will never come back.
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Be Evil. Be a dick.
Quote:More at https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/midweek-update-8-two-races-agai
What people are learning is that military superiority will always be a slave to political necessity and time is a massive political consideration. It remains remarkable that this basic but fundamental lesson needs to be learned again and again.
Two Races Against Time
One of the most frustrating things of the last few months is watching with disbelief as the US government, time and again, assumes that the country it is attacking or threatening will sit there, inert, not adapting. This mistake has led to foreign policy failure after failure, as other states do not play by Washington’s supposed rules and take steps to save themselves. It has happened in the trade war, even in Venezuela (where the Maduro regime seems successfully to have saved itself by abandoning Maduro) and in the Iran War. Iran has taken adaptive steps that the US clearly did not anticipate or prepare for, from small ones like attacking facilities across the region in other Gulf States to large ones such as closing the Strait of Hormuz.
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Maybe Trump won't fail, assuming the Iranians are worse at tactics/strategy/policy than he is. Personally, I wouldn't bet that Trump performs his duties well and keeps control of himself.
The Wall Street Journal isn't ready, yet, to declare Trump lost:
It’s Way Too Early to Declare Defeat in Iran
GLOBAL VIEW By Walter Russell Mead
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/its-way-too-early-to-declare-defeat-in-ira
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The establishment consensus is hardening. President Trump’s war with Iran is the culminating disaster of the most damaging and misguided American foreign policy in history. Iranian leaders are humiliating the U.S., German Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned. "Superpower suicide” is how Wendy Sherman, a top Iran negotiator under President Obama and Joe Biden’s deputy secretary of state, described Mr. Trump’s Iran policy to ABC News. As Ms. Sherman sees it, the Iran war has alienated allies, assisted Russia financially, and weakened America’s position vis-a-vis China. For Fareed Zakaria, the question is no longer whether the administration’s policies will backfire but whether the damage can ever be repaired.
Critics of the war believe Mr. Trump has worked himself into a trap. The military strikes aimed at decapitating Iran’s leadership brought the most radical elements of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to power. Iran’s stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz can’t be broken without a politically unsustainable ground war. Spiking energy prices offered Vladimir Putin a financial windfall just as
Russia’s economy was buckling under the strain of sanctions. China gleefully watches America trash its European alliances and deplete munition stocks needed to defend Taiwan. Meanwhile, because the president has done little to prepare the public for a long conflict, Iran has him over a barrel, and he must bribe or beg the Iranians to give him a quick exit from an unwinnable war.
Time will tell, but it would be a mistake for investors and decision makers to assume that Mr. Trump is desperately looking for the exits. Viewed from the Oval Office, the war may seem less costly than critics charge, and the likelihood of a favorable outcome may appear significantly greater than a horrified foreign-policy establishment can bring itself to believe.
True, the war has gone on longer than originally hoped and is taking a toll on the president’s popularity. But he may feel less trapped than critics think he should. Domestically, far-right critics like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens appear to be spiraling into irrelevance as Mr. Trump maintains his hold on the affections of his base. In the Gulf, American naval forces have, without taking casualties, consolidated a crushing blockade of Iran that Tehran seems unable to counter. Financial markets have stabilized and even strengthened despite the closing of the strait. With the arrival of a third aircraft carrier in the region, American military options are expanding. And if European allies are shunning the war, support in the Gulf for a decisive effort against Iran is stronger now than at the outbreak of hostilities.
Trump’s critics think he is desperately looking for an exit. Don’t count on it.
Mr. Trump probably isn’t losing sleep over the conflict’s effect so far on the balance of power with Russia and China. Russia may be reaping windfall profits from the oil-price surge, but American energy companies are enjoying a greater and likely longer-lasting boom. In any case, 2026 has been a bad year for the Kremlin. Its weapons fizzled against Israeli and U.S. missiles; its forces are stalemated in Ukraine; its Africa Corps has sustained a humiliating setback in Mali.
Mr. Trump likely isn’t worried about China’s taking advantage of America’s Middle East focus. Iran’s failures as well as its successes give Beijing food for thought. The ability of cheap and quickly built Iranian drones to harass shipping reinforces the lessons of the Ukraine war. In the Black Sea, Ukrainian drones have confined Russia’s surface fleet to port. That’s an ominous
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