1. United States
2. Colo.
3. Letter

I am a constituent in Loveland, Colorado. My tax dollars are funding a war that, as of this Easter weekend, the president has announced will include the deliberate destruction of civilian infrastructure - a war crime under the Geneva Conventions. You have already said you will not vote for another dollar for this war; I am writing to ask you to say something harder than that. On Easter morning, the President of the United States posted on Truth Social that he intends to destroy Iranian civilian infrastructure, specifically power plants and bridges, and gave Iran until Tuesday to comply or face bombardment. The following day, when asked about it, he stated publicly that he is "not worried" about committing war crimes. Deliberately targeting civilian power plants and bridges is prohibited under the Geneva Conventions, laws the United States helped write, and whose principles we enforced as lead prosecutor at Nuremberg, where men were convicted for the same category of act. It is not a gray area. It is not a judgment call. It is a war crime. And the President of the United States announced his intent to commit one on Easter Sunday. Your constituents need to hear you say this war is not just costly; it is wrong, morally, legally, and constitutionally. This war was launched without a single vote from Congress, in violation of the War Powers Resolution of 1973, and that is a direct usurpation of the powers the Constitution grants exclusively to Congress. And it does not stop there. This administration has deployed military forces against American citizens on domestic soil - deployments that federal courts have ruled violate the Posse Comitatus Act. The president has called Democratic lawmakers “seditious” and explicitly stated their behavior is “punishable by DEATH”, for the crime of reminding soldiers they are not required to follow illegal orders. A president calling for the execution of political opponents is not a partisan controversy; it is a threat to every elected official in Washington, including YOU. You have already shown you are willing to break from this president when it matters. I am asking you to finish the job: - Publicly condemn Trump’s explicit threats to destroy Iranian civilian infrastructure, a violation of the laws of armed conflict - Demand a congressional authorization vote. The Constitution requires it, and two resolutions have already failed to pass - Go on record against the domestic military deployments that federal courts have already found to be illegal - Treat the president’s calls for the deaths of political opponents as the constitutional crisis it is When asked whether Trump should get out of Iran entirely, you said "That's up to the president" and walked away. Is it? Because the Constitution says it's up to Congress - and you swore an oath to the Constitution, not to this president.