Published July 21, 2026 at 8:42 AM ET · Updated July 21, 2026 at 10:04 PM ET
(VIDEO) Trump Says US Will Hit Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain “Very Heavily” Soon as Israeli Intelligence Suggests Iran Rebuilding Nuclear Program
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President Trump stated that the United States will strike Iran's Pickaxe Mountain facility in the near future. Israeli intelligence reports indicate Iran has moved centrifuges to the site as part of efforts to rebuild its nuclear program.
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⚖ The Constitutional Angle
Youngstown held that emergency does not create presidential power; the power must come from Congress or the Constitution. The Prize Cases allowed a blockade in an existing rebellion without waiting for a declaration. These slices do not establish authority for a planned strike on Iran absent a valid source of war power.
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.
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.
Precedent facts from the PW Law Library — primary-source verified & independently audited
