Anti-war movement looks to take Trump to court to stop war with Iran
Anti-war groups are lobbying Congress to take President Donald Trump to court on Iran war powers.
The White House has threatened to veto the bipartisan resolution Congress just passed to limit President Donald Trump’s ability to pursue offensive military action against Iran — but invigorated anti-war advocates are already planning their next move.
Some Democratic lawmakers — and multiple anti-war groups who have their ear — are growing increasingly bullish on the prospect of taking Trump to court over unauthorized military action against Iran.
They say they believe that the Republican-held Senate’s 55-45 vote to rebuke Trump over Iran war powers coupled with today’s 227-186 House vote has given Congress the ammunition it needs to pursue a precedent-setting case in the US court system that they hope will allow lawmakers to wrest their war-making authorities back from the White House.
“I definitely think that we need to look into that,” said Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., who revived congressional interest in war powers resolutions when he first began pushing legislation to force Trump to end US support for the Saudi-led coalition against Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels in 2017. “It’s got to be a conversation by many people in the caucus, but I’d certainly be supportive of it.”
