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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Did he take a “Drug Test” before this speech?
Lies….liberals
We could be heading for a huge Constitutional crisis.
God help us all. I pray we have TRUMP as our president very soon!!
If my people will humble themselves then I will hear and heal their land
It’s not over , in fact it’s just begun !
Then why didn’t prevent him from getting there in the first place?
Dan ask God!
So where or where has out Congress disappeared to.. the local corner bar??? They sit on their butts and do NOTHING..can we pull their pay? Cancel their Vacations? Not a one of the deadbeats leaves Washington broke, just lots of unfinished business
Wake up to truth voters. TRUMP 2016.