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’s only part of what has to happen to change a constitutional right. I’m pretty sure that it said that it also takes a majority of both the congress and Senate to.
Yeah to take out blm black panthers and refugees anything else he will pay the price of being a asshole
Oh only hope it stands against him.
Bad Idea! I think you will see an increase of Americans enforcing the United States Constitution!! Most Americans follow and respect our United States Constitution!!
Never did we give him this authority
You can’t rewrite the law idiot
So do something about it!!!!
yes Congress is that stupid and corrupt.
YOU are not as smart about the Constituion as the fore Fathers.
Mitch McConnell should be indicted and put in prison for treason. I have been a republican my whole life but I am fed up with the neonazis in the republican party.