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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the president does not have the power even if congress goes along the top milatery staff can arrest him for treason
there is a cure for tyranny
If marshal law is declared obama im coming for you ##!
AND YOU$#%&!@*LIBERALS GAVE IT TO HIM
I wait gripping my detonator, ha..ha…ha
Amen
TRUMP IS CERTAINLY ONE OF US AND HE IS WILLING TO FIGHT FOR THE COUNTRY AND AMERICANS IN FACT HE IS THE ONLY CANDIDATE WILLING TO SERVE WE THE PEOPLE.
What Bozos in congress passed this?Can these people read?
OMG!!!! VOTE OUT These EVIL TRAITOR”S + TERM LIMIT”S!!!!
This could be next on the Obama Hit Parade. Hope fully Congress will get their collective heads out of their 4th point of contact and straighten this out!