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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NOT .
All the GOP are Rhinos!!!
You know what he can do with the paper that the rewrite is on.
and how could this happen?
Governmental Overreach
Sounds like these people that we elected to represent us are not concerned about what “we the people” want. These people believe they are privileged people that do not need any advise or instructions from the voters. That is why we need Trump to go to Washington and turn their world upside down.
He better think long and hard about that it would be a treasonous act by Congress for allowing him to do that he military will remove him or civil war will be right her in America
This could get interesting !
Unacceptable
Congress should revovoke this action by traitor Gbummer.