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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It will be!
Stop Obama’s agenda. Impeach obam now.
He wants to be King. All Muslims are the same under Allah.
what an idiot u can’t re write the constitution and don’t give that any more power, this guy needs thrown out of office
This is treason against America again, mitch McConnell deserves arrested and charged with treason so does hillary Obama and this entire treasonous traitorous criminal administration.
Not entirely true. If the majority of justices of the Supreme Court decide that a presidential decision is within the constitutional scope of his powers, then it has the full force of law. And since he has stacked the court with activists, He has a good chance of getting away with it.
no
Chris Murphy, CT (D)irtbag, has no idea what he is talking about. I swear if you watch him in person it’s like watching a robot that likes to hear himself talk.
Right
We’re are the people we elected they need to stand before they fall