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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Well you guys were stupid for letting them do that.
Our Republican controlled congress gave this power to a failed dictator! This man isn’t capable of good decisions!!!!
When Obama declares martial law. He might as well say he is declaring war on America. It will be the same thing.
Duh, been yelling this for 8 yrs now. It fell on deaf ears. Oh and ta da?? “Um,do you think he would do tht??? Um yep
Civil war
And I have the power to say$#%&!@*that with a vengeance!
What a jerk
That why Trump said away with the un
WHERES PAUL RYAN? DOES HE NOT HAVE MORE POWER THAN OBAMA,SURE I HEARD THAT SOMEWHERE.
If the elected offucails would do their jobs he could. Be stiped.