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While I agree, let's not pretend that presidents haven't been launching combat missions without formal declaration of war for decades. Longer than I've been alive. It's one of the biggest expansions of executive power we have allowed, under the guise of "the war on terror", "the cold war", or even "the war on drugs".
There's not really any room to agree with her legally; she is categorically wrong. This action falls under previous standing military authorizations that Congress has passed.
If Congress has an issue with it, they can revoke them at any time. She can say that she thinks it's wrong and that we shouldn't have done it, but to say that it's unconstitutional is just broadcasting an embarrassing lack of knowledge for a sitting member of Congress.
I guess I meant that those standing authorizations should not exist, as they effectively abdicate a power the Constitution outlined for Congress, transferring it to the President. They erode the checks and balances.
That's an argument for Congress revoking it though, not for it being illegal.
To that end, I mostly do agree actually. It's not a good idea for the President to have such vast unilateral military powers without prior Congressional oversight, but again, this was all done by Congress to begin with. They can repeal it at any time.
I'd argue that an unconstitutional law is itself illegal, and thus does not render an unconstitutional action legal. That said, I'm sure I'd lose any argument on the constitutionality of the war power granted by Congress to the President.
The truth is, our Constitution was written in a time when the world moved much more slowly. It's unfortunately no longer practical to expect it to work in a world as fast paced as ours is today. We need a full rewrite, but I do not trust anyone to rewrite it.