"These legislators, like many others in the judicial branch, have been all too happy to surrender powers and responsibilities assigned to them by the Constitution in order to prop up Trump's burgeoning dictatorship, leaving public approval for Congress as a body at an anemic 17% as of mid-December. But today, at least, the U.S. Senate can say that it's made some symbolic gesture in rebuking Trump's most recent warmongering actions in the nation of"
"Granted: Said resolution, in which senators voted 52-47 to allow a future vote on the Senate floor, comes after the United States already invaded Venezuela, abducted its admittedly illegitimate president Nicolás Maduro, and immediately started claiming that we would be controlling the entire oil industry upon which the destabilized, corruption-wracked nation depends. In a New York Times piece yesterday, Trump was asked directly how long the U.S. would need to be "running" things as it extorts relatively useless heavy oil from the country."
Trump administration has brazenly disregarded international and Constitutional law while using bullying tactics to reassert U.S. dominance across the Western Hemisphere. Congressional Republicans have been cowed by personal attacks and primary threats, producing a 119th Congress marked by inaction and a mix of slavish support on the right and feckless token resistance on the left. Many legislators and judges have surrendered constitutional powers, driving public approval of Congress to about 17% in mid-December. The U.S. Senate narrowly advanced a resolution, 52-47, to allow a future vote requiring congressional approval for further military action in Venezuela, although that vote follows aggressive U.S. intervention there.
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