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 bill must be stopped
the national guard and the army airforce and the marines hate his guts..the police hate him they will not make one move against americans.
McConnell stop this bill or lose your job too. This affects your family too do not give Obama unlimited power. For Marshall law Wakeup
Time for we the people call treason congress won’t do it
only if senate and congress go alone with him,they can if they want ,stop anything he does
NO HE DOES NOT!
We declare he can kiss off .this is our country and we wont just hand it to him we are not congress with no balls
This is exactly why we don’t want democrats or republicans , republicans should have impeach this worthless ovomit out a long time ago
Out with all the scum that voted for Oscumbag to be able to declair Martial control .
What makes him think anybody will obey his law since he doesn’t obey the Constitution?