SEN TIM KAINE: Trump's Venezuela strike trampled Congress' war powers. Congress must stop it

President Donald Trump’s unauthorized military attack on Venezuela to arrest Nicolás Maduro — however terrible he is — is a sickening return to a day when the United States asserted the right to dominate the internal political affairs of all nations in the Western Hemisphere. That history is replete with failures — in Cuba, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Chile, the Dominican Republic and elsewhere — that destabilized the region and led to deep hostility toward the United States.

The White House spin...