The Authorization for Use of Military Force passed by the Senate is a rewrite of the Constitution’s War Powers clause and grants the President broad authority to deploy ground troops almost everywhere in the world, including the United States. That’s the warning being voiced by Democratic Senator Chris Murphy in response to the AUMF bill proposed by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
The bill would grant the president overwhelming control over where the US forces are deployed, which is scary for two reasons. The first is the obvious threat to American citizens’ rights. If the military can be sent to an American city based on loose justifications, they could be used to impose martial law and even empower a police state that has already grown too powerful.
The second reason is the plain call back to Manifest Destiny. Americans do not want to police the world. If the European Union is too busy handling the migrant crisis and Russia has finally come to terms with the harsh economic reality that their country is on the brink of collapse, it would leave the United States to ensure the sovereignty of all democratic nations. A solution that nobody would want.
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I wonder if he calls for Martial Law , if he’ll go un
trators all of them
Nothing will be done about this. Middle class need to take a week off of work and stop this$#%&!@* Protest and get United somehow or we are going to lose all our rights. Enough is enough. I hope someone steps up and gets a movement going.
This should scare reps dems and us that are independent.
Lololololol. Learn to read. Mitch McConnell, a Republican, is proposing the legislation, and you sheep are screaming about Obama…again because of another misleading bunch of right wing click bait you saw on Facebook.
Ain’t happening people…relax
No way
Fear mongering for the less bright people
Won’t happen