Published July 11, 2026 at 3:42 PM ET · Updated July 12, 2026 at 4:07 AM ET
Trump warns Iran of 1,000-missile barrage if it carries out assassination plot
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Trump warned that the U.S. would decimate and destroy Iran with 1,000 missiles if it carries out an assassination plot. He stated that the missiles are locked and loaded.
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⚖ The Constitutional Angle
The Prize Cases upheld presidential authority to initiate military force without waiting for Congress during active conflict. Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer sets the limit: power must stem from Congress or the Constitution, and emergency is the occasion for using power that exists, not creating new power. A unilateral strike outside an existing conflict is not settled by these cases.
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.
Precedent facts from the PW Law Library — primary-source verified & independently audited
