Track whether this week's Iran-related events (blockade, troop deployments, ceasefire failures) receive congressional oversight hearings or just symbolic war powers votes that fail along party lines.
This scores low on constitutional damage (A=12) because it represents normal congressional process—a failed legislative effort with no institutional lever pulled. The mechanism is norm_erosion_only with no enforcement action. However, it scores moderately high on distraction (B=44) due to exceptional timing amid a massive Iran war news cycle this week (blockade announcements, ceasefire talks, troop deployments, nuclear negotiations) and appears designed to generate media-friendly war powers debate while more concrete constitutional threats (voting restrictions, ICE accountability gaps) receive less attention.