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President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attempted to avoid accountability at the end of April by absurdly asserting that they had pressed pause on the war with Iran. They've likely been breaking the law ever since.
But their rationale – if you can bear to call it that – just fell apart.
The War Powers Resolution, federal legislation adopted in 1973, requires a president to cease hostilities after 60 days of fighting or receive congressional approval to continue. That deadline arrived May 1.
But Trump and Hegseth claimed that a shaky ceasefire with Iran that started in April had stopped the clock from ticking on the 60-day deadline.
That was nonsense. There is no pause button in the War Powers Resolution.
And then the U.S. military reported sinking at least six Iranian boats on May 4 while they were targeting commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.
So Trump's pretend pause is no more.
Trump doesn't seem too worried about following the law on war
Trump, our first felon president, won't care about breaking another law. He flat-out called the War Powers Resolution "totally unconstitutional" on the 60th day of his war, when........