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 become Martial War if thats his plan
International martial law what a crock. No one in any country has any respect for this traitor. What’s he gonna do next crown himself with all the mullahs as his priests? Seriously b******t.
THANK YOU SENATOR MURPHY !!!
F**k no it did not! CIVIL WAR 2.0
THIS NEEDS TO BE VOTED DOWN
THECONSTITUTION CANNOT BE RE WRITTEN. IT IS THERE AND CAN ONLY BE CHANGED BYTHE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY. WE MUST NOT ALLOW ANYONE TO TELL US IT NO LONGER EXISTS. WE SHOULD FIGHT TO PROTECT IT OR WE WILL WIND UP DEFEATED AND CONTROLLED.
Stop this traitor
b******t
Just shoot this traitor
Obummer can not rewrite the constitution. That is done by the 2 houses. He can say he did but that does not make it true.