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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they better not pass this bill, otherwise that makes them all traitors
God will judge you corrupt politicians.
and congress sits there with their heads up the arses. way to freakin go
cant stand eather one of them
The Constitution is fine, Washington needs to be “rewritten”
STOP him from trying to become Emperor. He may not be able to re-write the Constitution, but he can bastardize our laws enough so that we are left fighting for the rights that our Constitution entitled (there’s that word..used properly) us to. The powerful rule and he’s building up his power base. Shame on our military for following his orders. Shame on our Congress for not stopping him and shame on law enforcement for using his strong-arm tactics. We really are at war with all of this. The problem is that most people are willing to just sit back and let it happen.
HE DONT DESERVE NOTHING , HE BELONGS IN PRISON YOU MORONS
I generally disagree with Senator Murphy, but he is correct. Has McConnell collapsed as a leader of the opposition?
It will happen, He will so he can retain his power, & he has made his power with a no questions Kill List . of anybody that opposes him
Stop this president