[Hoot Gibson]

Hasn't precedent already been set? National emergencies declared many times and I don't think Congress authorized Obama to send all those billions in cash to Iran?

When I said precedent, I was referring to a legal precedent established through litigation. Republicans should have aggressively fought to undo Obama's deal with Iran in federal court, because he renamed what was a treaty and signed it without having it ratified by Congress. AFAIK, there was no court decision to validate the unconstitutional act that Obama took.

Even if there had been such a decision, based on what I have read, most of the cash that was sent to Iran was Iranian funds from the pre-Iranian revolution that had been frozen and the rest was related to a previously approved weapons deal with the former government of Iran. Don't get me wrong, the Iran deal was one of many things that Obama could have been impeached over, but committing an unconstitutional act that went unchallenged in the courts did not set a legal precedent.