Ed Flaherty of Veterans For Peace addressing about 75 people gathered to protest the military action in Venezuela over the weekend.

This letter from Ed Flaherty was published in the Cedar Rapids Gazette April 25.

[BFIA editor’s note: There appears to be some discrepancy as to the actual date the War Powers  Resolution kicks in. Some sources say May 1st]

What happens to Trump’s war powers after April 25?

by Ed Flaherty

Our current war with Iran started Feb. 28. Sixty days from that date is April 25. The 1973 War Powers Resolution is the law of the land. It mandates that any U.S. lethal armed conflict not authorized by Congress must cease within 60 days of its inception.

Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Sens. Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley have repeatedly voted against efforts to stop this ill-conceived, illegal, ill-fated war. It will now be their duty on April 25 to remind the president that war on Iran must stop. Their failure to do so on April 26 will be an abject confession that the laws that Congress has made don’t matter.

Ed Flaherty

Iowa City