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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Real trouble is brewing in the Whitehouse.
They will only get away with it if the sheeple allow it. They can not just amend any part of the constitution. There has to be a convention and then ratification by at least 34 states.
Nobody can rewrite the constitution!
DUH? COME AND TAKE IT..
Because the lack of prayer….
Hey there are hundred million plus people now armed and the numbers going up every day!
he can’t declare anything INTERNATIOANL morons!!!!
looks like a war if he does,the American people won’t stand for that
that’s laughable america will skin you alive go back to kenya you traitor
He needs to be arrested for treason, tried and hanged