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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i don’t listen to marshal law !
That is treason against our country, and the law, He don’t have the power to rewrite the law,
Congress better get their acts straight,
Get off your butts and control all this
Garbage going on. 7 1/2 yrs. is to damn
Long. He roughshods and laughs at all
Of you. Your not doing your jobs. Straighten
Up and do the right thing you promised
Your country and us.
Can he get by with this???
The Senate and congress must be held accountable if they give all power to this Tyrant.
The Constitution should not have been rewritten and if it has then these are the stupid Congressmen that should be taken out of their offices. THE PROMIST TO PROTECT, DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE US.
Thats all this country needs is a Civil War, Bad Idea, time to get rid of that power hungry Muslim “King Obama”
Because we have a bunch of wimps in office,and they are afraid to cross the head Muslim.
It’s time to Trump all your dumb asses. Trump or bust baby
CAN YOU REWRITE CONSITUTION BY RESOLUTION? IF TRUE THEN NO MORE TALKING, JUST TAKE BACK AMERICA BY AMERICANS IN ACTION. HAD ENOUGH.