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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BS
ppl should force him and congress out. seriously .
Bring it!
Just trying to scare people.
B******t
thats what obama and other dems mean when they say trump wont ever be president. if hillary looses obama plans to declare martial law.
this is very evil
This is all against the Constitutional Laws, Bill of Riggts. This is High Treason against Americans. Lock and load citizens they want a civil war, it’s on.
And those of us Americans who want to live in the Constitutional United States are going to go somewhere else and start over again with the Constitution.
Matt, thank you. I changed it to Martial. I have a small iPad and it keeps changing my words and I didn’t know the difference! 🙂