When our representatives are sworn into Congress, they are, first and foremost, making a promise to protect and defend the Constitution — “against all enemies foreign and domestic.”
Any sensible assessment of President Donald Trump’s second stint in office, plagued by lawlessness, will reveal that we and our founding document are facing a domestic enemy: the president himself.
We could list all the obvious instances of Trump’s unconstitutional actions, but we will focus on one in particular: this illegal and shortsighted war of choice in Iran.
The consequences of this foolish gamble are immense. Over 3,400 Iranians have been killed in the joint U.S.-Israel strikes. In Lebanon, another front in the war, nearly 3,700 have been killed in the Israel-led campaign against the militant group Hezbollah. Thirteen U.S. service members have died — 13 American families needlessly heartbroken.
Beyond the immorality of this wanton death and destruction, gas prices here and abroad have skyrocketed — due to the global fuel supply shock created by Iran’s retaliatory blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s oil was carried prior to the war.