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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Freddie Cooper
You can’t just rewrite the Constitution.
Vote Trump
KEEP DREAMING.
Ophony does not have any authority to legally rewrite any darn thing. Remove him and all involved immediately and throw them in the slammer for life.
SOUNDS LIKE A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DIE!! MOSTLY A BUNCH OF PEOPLE IN CONGRESS IF THIS PASSES!!! EVEN THE IDIOT PRESIDENT!!!
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and they thought that the french resistance was tough, Wait till the come up on a bunch of red necks and bikers , we will be nice and bury them tho
How many people believe OK for one of his ships real how many people believe that the US Army is actually going to turn on its own people it is against the law for the US Army or the Marines to fight against the American people and by the way the American people outnumber our own Army help the legal registered gun owners in this country outnumber most armies in the entire world probably besides China
GIVE ME A BREAK. I KNOW OF SEVERAL COUNTRIES WHO WOULD TELL OBAMASS TO$#%&!@*OFF IN HIGH TONE.