Published July 13, 2026 at 7:15 PM ET · Updated July 14, 2026 at 2:02 AM ET
Trump says United States should control Hormuz and be paid for it; Iran rejects proposal
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The United States struck Iran for a third consecutive night after President Trump formally notified Congress of resumed hostilities and reinstated an Iran blockade. The continued strikes followed Trump's notification to Congress.
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⚖ The Constitutional Angle
The Prize Cases upheld a presidential blockade instituted without a congressional declaration of war, but only against ports held by states in rebellion, not a foreign sovereign. Whether that extends to blockading Iran is unsettled by that holding. Youngstown adds that emergency does not create presidential power; it marks the occasion for exercising powers that must already exist from an act of Congress or the Constitution.
The Prize Cases (The Brig Amy Warwick; The Schooner Crenshaw; The Barque Hiawatha; The Schooner Brilliante) 67 U.S. (2 Black) 635 (1863)
Vote: 5-4 · Opinion: Grier
The President had the right, jure belli, to institute a blockade of ports held by states in rebellion — which neutrals were bound to respect — without waiting for a congressional declaration of war.
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (The Steel Seizure Case) — CROSS-REFERENCE ENTRY 343 U.S. 579 (1952)
Vote: 6-3 · Opinion: Black
SHORT FORM (full apparatus lives in the presidential-immunity entry): President Truman's Korean War seizure of the steel mills was unlawful — the President's power 'must stem either from an act of Congress or from the Constitution itself,' and neither source supplied it, particularly where Congress had considered and withheld seizure authority. Youngstown supplies the Jackson framework through which Dames & Moore, Zivotofsky, and the 2026 IEEPA tariff decision were all argued: emergency does not create power; it marks the occasion for exercising powers that must already exist.
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