Executive war without Congressional authorisation

Five days ago, this reading identified the constitutional confrontation as the deep structure beneath the American surface. The confrontation has now escalated beyond what that framing could contain. The President has launched a war — not "strikes," not an "operation," but an ongoing multi-front military engagement with a sovereign nation — without Congressional authorisation. Three American soldiers are dead. Embassies are burning. A major global shipping lane is closed. And Congress has not vo ...