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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THE SENATE ARE MORTAL ENEMIES THEY SHOULD BE FIRED
This is such a crock terrorist Obama should have no control over anything he doesn’t even deserve freedom
you got to be kidding
Then he will or has replaced them with ones that will
STICK YOUR RESOLUTION UP YOUR$#%&!@* THE CONSTITUTION WILL NOT BE CHANGED AND YOU ALL WILL PAY.
TREASONIOUS S O B POS W T F UP PPL.
Time to get rid of all the libs in our government
It still says what it says and we the people will protect it with GUNS. I bet they don’t like that statement. I don’t have anything to lose . so….. What difference at this point does it make…. What difference does it make. I can’t wait to throw down with you commie bastards.
Where is Congress?
Never know until the C**p hits the fan.