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Dear Democratic Colleague,
Last week, the Trump Administration conducted a provocative and disproportionate military airstrike targeting high-level Iranian military officials. This action endangered our servicemembers, diplomats and others by risking a serious escalation of tensions with Iran.
As Members of Congress, our first responsibility is to keep the American people safe. For this reason, we are concerned that the Administration took this action without the consultation of Congress and without respect for Congress's war powers granted to it by the Constitution.
The Constitution dodged a bullet in December, but I wonder how many people noticed.
With so much background noise from the media clamoring for fresh news on impeachment, public officials stating conclusions about evidence yet to be collected, daily tweets from a president anxious for vindication, and confident answers by academics on difficult questions, or worse, confident pronouncements that are plainly in error—perhaps it's not surprising that the main constitutional import of the last weeks has been neglected. That overlooked significance is Speaker Nancy Pelosi's rationale for taking the initiative to pause the unfolding sequence of impeachment, a decision for which she will likely someday be honored by those who seek to preserve and protect the Constitution.