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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That is who i am pissed with. They need to stop him. Damn! What do we need them for! They have done nothing.
Written w hat.. at you fken scumbags. A l l you fken dems should be fired TRUMP WILL CLEAN YOU SCUMBAGS
..TRY&SEE-
He must be hung and go to fucken hell where he belongs cocksucker
well the only ones to blame arent in Congress or the White House.. its the one looking back at you and me in the mirror..
and what will you all do when the bulk of americans stand up to you
Uhhh, folks hold on. There is a prescribed process for amending the Constitution. It doesn’t sound like it has been followed.
Civil War if that happenstance!
This is the cure
“International” martial law? Really?