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http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/5f247be559db78ab https://verfassungsblog.de/congress-war-powers/ The Constitution’s Midnight - The U.S. Attack on Iran Was Unconstitutional Glennon, Michael J. eng 2025-07-03 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Israel-Iran-Krieg Presidential Powers State of war Trump Donald | 1946- | Geschäftsmann Unternehmer Politiker US Congress USA USA. Congress Trump Donald | 1946- | Geschäftsmann Unternehmer Politiker USA USA. Congress Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Resolving some legal issues requires drawing a line through a gray area. Others can be resolved without having to draw a line, in recognition of an old insight: that there is a dawn and a dusk does not mean there is no noon or no midnight. Whether the President had power under the Constitution to attack Iran without congressional approval is an issue that falls in the latter category, within the Constitution’s midnight: wherever a line might be drawn in harder cases, this is not one of them.