WASHINGTON—The U.S. Senate on June 23 passed a resolution seeking to prevent U.S. forces from engaging in further hostilities with Iran unless they are first authorized by Congress.
Senators voted 50–48 in favor of a Democrat-led concurrent resolution to constrain President Donald Trump’s ability to make war against Iran. The resolution was previously passed in a vote in the House of Representatives on June 3.
It offers a symbolic rebuke of the military campaign Trump launched against Iran on Feb. 28, but lacks clear legal enforceability without the president’s signature.
The 1973 law does not require the resolution to go to the president’s desk for signature. A 1983 Supreme Court decision held that the measure must be sent for a president’s signature or veto to have legal effect. …