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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Hope not.
HE GETS AWAY WITH WHAT HE DOES BECAUSE WE HAVE TOTALLY WORTHLESS PEOPLE IN CONGRESS AND SENATE !
Is he nuts
Well he better be able to bring in a force larger than 6 million pissed off NRA members with millions of guns of their own.
Where in the hell is Congress
You don’t rewrite the constitution you idiot
Do it SOB and you will have a war period
He signed it as an executive order to bypass congress like everything else underhanded he’s done. People say he is almost out. I say he still can screw us big time in the few weeks or months left!
So why did you give it to him ,idiots.we need to clean our houses and start over with all new people.
Congress was bypassed through his wonderful executive orders