As the US-Iran conflict hit the 60-day legal deadline this week, the administration presented Congress with three simultaneous arguments: the law doesn't exist, the war is over, and military options to relaunch it are under active review. VP Vance helpfully described the Act as "fundamentally fake." Constitutional scholars described the strategy as "I genuinely don't have a framework for this."
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Day 63 of the Iran conflict: the President simultaneously insists the war is won, that suggesting otherwise is treason, and that new military options are under review. Congress has been notified that hostilities "have terminated." The Pentagon was not copied on that memo.