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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He can’t do nothing without Congress approval Congress makes the law’s not him he can’t touch the constitution with out Congress or the supreme Court’s permission.
Scarey times
What the hell are you supposedly representatives of the people thinking ?? Nobody gets this kind of power.
I got this a couple of times last week , and I’m beginning to believe this to be the growing consensus !
You are 100% correct David.
Pressure but be placed on Mitch McConnel by all of us to Resign Replace this man by a Conservative and not the one next in line immediately someone with a back bone of Conservative values understand and protecting the Constitution, Bill of Rights Ten commandments. Mitch McConnell has assisted in demolishing our country. Any comments please share.
My hat is off to David Maxfield for his outstanding comments whichi am in total agreement .Unfortunately our own prosecutors are his partners in crime rendering this course of action useless. He has successfully blocked all avenues of recourse before exposing his true character and destructive agenda. They have covered all the bases way before our stupid uninformed voters and countless dead people elected this hope and change dictator. Sad thing is the majority of our voters think everything is just fine. They are still stupid, , uninformed, dumb, deaf, and blimd,beyond cure.
In a house of a legislature, the term non-binding resolution refers to measures that do not become laws. This is used to differentiate those measures from a bill, which is also a resolution in the technical sense. The resolution is often used to express the body’s approval or disapproval of something which they cannot otherwise vote on, due to the matter being handled by another jurisdiction, or being protected by a constitution. An example would be a resolution of support for a nation’s troops in battle, which carries no legal weight, but is adopted for moral support.
Its TREASON…. keep the voting record, we will need it for treason trials later.
Shows how corrupt those in elected office really are. This is nothing less the endorsement of dictatorship