House Speaker Mike Johnson argued Tuesday that President Donald Trump was acting within his Article II powers as president with his order of strikes against three Iranian nuclear facilities and that the War Powers Act, being used by members of Congress to push back at the decision, is likely unconstitutional. 

“Let me be clear and be as clear as possible: The strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities were clearly within President Trump’s Article II powers as commander-in-chief,” the Louisiana Republican said in a press conference, shown on C-SPAN Tuesday. “It shouldn’t even be in dispute.”

He went on to argue, using his background as a constitutional law attorney, that the “law and the precedent” back up arguments against the War Powers Act, passed in 1973 during the Nixon administration. 

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