1. United States
2. Mo.
3. Letter

I received your email today praising President Trump’s invasion of Venezuela which is a defense of an unconstitutional act of war. You should be ashamed for not representing your constituents and pandering to Trump who is wildly unpopular. No president has the authority to send U.S. forces into a sovereign nation without Congress. Calling it a “limited interagency operation” is wordplay, not law. Article I is explicit, and this action violated it. If a president may invade another country and seize its leader based solely on his own judgment, then Congress is irrelevant and the Constitution is hollow. That is not strength. It is authoritarianism. International law does not permit the kidnapping of foreign heads of state, and discarding legal limits because the target is despised places American troops and civilians in danger. This is how the United States loses moral authority and invites retaliation. As a U.S. Senator, your job is to restrain unlawful executive power; not applaud it. I expect you to demand oversight, defend Congress’s war powers, and oppose any further unauthorized use of force.