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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Dude, better check that US military…they’ve been decimated and I’ll let you guess how motivated they are to support an anti-American Prez against the citizens of “their” nation.
Good grief who believes this b******t. Congress cannot amend the Constitution unilaterally.
To dumb to comment about.
I agree
This country was born out of a revolution. Its going to take another one to keep it.
There’s an America that wont tolerate this Obama, Clinton, Trump, Democrat stupidity when weve been pushed to the limit.
Count on it.
That’s when it will hit the fan as they say! These people are going crazy as hull
Get a rope
Those silly nazis and their wild imaginations. Not happy with unicorns, fairies, and socialism; now they’re imagining fantastical tales of authority over other sovereign nations. Apparently they haven’t been getting their regular dose of reality.
Let’s get this matter clear, the damn president no matter who he/she may be had no authority to do anything that the Congress doesn’t ALLOW.
Uh oh, tin foil hats just got taken outta the closet as they grabbed the shovels to go dig the holes a little bit deeper.