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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What is congress doing to it’s people. They need to be replaced.
Beware Obama.
Hate to say it but the constitution is not to be infringed therefore they are guilty of treason against America amen and therefore should be arrested and charged as such amen
Won’t happen. That’s just how scared they are at their globalist agenda is disappearing
It is far past time to Impeach him
YOU, Congress, better put an immediate stop to this bill. It’s YOUR responsibility to uphold the Constitution against ALL enemies foreign and DOMESTIC
Another after hours, illegal close door session by The Brown Envelope Club of Washington, D.C.
REVOLUTION .
Mitch McConnell is not a Republican. He’s a bought and paid for globalist that wants to dismantle the constitution just like others of his ilke
You CAN NOT re write the constitution