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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People….he will declare martial law BEFORE the elections. Think…hoping for Trump to win will be delayed. You must have a plan of action to go directly against Obama and his minions that are coming for us. Obama is basically declaring war upon the American people and the Senate and Congress have been helping him do this for some time. So get prepared and DO NOT count on this election proceeding as it has for so many years!
AND YOU ALL ALLOWED IT AS DID OUR CONGRESS. fIRE THEM ALL AND GET THEM OUT OF OUR GOVERNMENT.
UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION
I don’t think so amen the constitution is not to be infringed on amen
Look out America!
He can not declare martial law with out Congress amen therefore therefore if he trys he should be arrested for treason and terrorist attacks on Americans and America amen
And just who is letting him get away with this… it is not the American people. And it will not last long
He is not worried about Obama he is worried about if a Republican gets into office.
If you think that you are as big a fool as Obama.
Mitch McConnell is an idiot!