Trump’s Venezuela strike sparks constitutional clash as Maduro is hauled into US

The Trump administration’s stunning overnight operation in Venezuela Saturday involving at least seven military strikes and the capture of Nicolás Maduro drew familiar legal criticisms from across the political spectrum.

President Donald Trump's decision to authorize the strikes, which early reports say killed dozens of foreign military and law enforcement personnel, follows decades of presidents sidestepping Congress to launch offensives abroad. But experts and lawmakers warned that the legal questions do not end there.