What is the ultimate authority of a king?

It’s to decide whether people live or die, based on his personal preference,
and allowing no challenge to his whims.

That’s the power that Donald Trump holds right now.

The Trump regime’s war against Iran is illegal under U.S. law.

Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the Constitution gives Congress
– not the president
– the power to declare war.

The War Powers Act allows the president to send the military into “hostilities” only after Congress authorizes it
or there’s “a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces.”

Neither happened here.

The United Nations Charter bans offensive warfare but allows for self-defense.

The Trump regime pretended it acted defensively when it joined Israel in killing Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and scores of schoolgirls in attacks that also led to at least four American deaths.

No matter what Trump says,
this was a war of choice,
illegal under the UN charter.

British Defense Secretary John Healey said it was
up to “the U.S. to set out the legal basis of the action that it took.”

But the Trump regime only occasionally feels the need to explain itself.

Laws have become quaint relics.

Citizens sue over the law,
judges rule on the law,
and fascists ignore the law.

The other two branches of government have largely surrendered
– the GOP-run Congress by not asserting its authority
and the Supreme Court by giving the president criminal immunity for “official acts.”

Trump has long thought himself to be above all laws,
even on matters of life and death.

He made that clear a decade ago when he said,
“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody,
and I wouldn’t lose any voters.”

In 2020, he declared, “When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total.
And that’s the way it’s got to be.
It’s total.”

Obviously, he hasn’t reconsidered that view.

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