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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This needs to be repealed in a hurry,every individual instance needs to go by congress on it’s own merit I would not put anything past this guy,why is congress just giving him more and more power,Wake up RYAN, and do what you are put there to do LEAD not hunker down
Like Congress cares?
Do these morons even think about what they say ? ( I say some stuff I shouldn’t , but I do at least think about it AHEAD OF TIME )
I agree
Stop it now
Cynthia Shannon Bouakadakis – I also read the obamacare Bill when it came out and knew then that obama and his regime had pulled off the perfect silent coup against this country – with not one shot fired. It’s why he goes around with such a smug arrogant look on his face all the time.
A resolution that violated the constitution would be illegal to accept and unconstitutional to have any effect at law.
Is he in Obama’s pocket? Did Obama put him up TP proposing this bill?
You can’t write a resolution or amend the origional constitution withouta constitutional convention.
The Constitution can be amended, but it takes 2/3 majority of the States. Which means 2/3 of the population of EACH state has to vote for it. NOT CONGRESS. It has to be voted for BY THE PEOPLE to pass. No matter what they think. If congress try to pass it without it being voted for by the population, then it cannot be made into an amendment.