Trump’s war against Iran could soon be considered illegal – 60-day War Powers deadline expires on May 1

And when he doesn’t change anything except saying that a blockade is not a war? Whats congress going to do? The law is not self enforcing sadly and thus congress won’t do shit.

> Legal experts say the most likely course for the Trump administration is simply to ignore the law. His predecessors Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were criticised for doing so during the 1999 Kosovo bombing campaign and the 2011 Libya intervention, respectively.

Obviously, this is on a different scale from those two, but congress for the last several decades has been happy to just abdicate power to the executive.