Posted on 10/26/2017 9:40:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, along with two other Democratic Senators, will introduce a bill preventing President Trump from launching a preemptive strike on North Korea without congression consent.
Murphy has been trying to restrict the war making powers of the executive for years, so this is nothing new. He also sought to limit the power of President Obama to go to war in the Middle East.
In a series of tweets, Murphy outlined his reasoning.
Trump's North Korea threats are real. I will intro bill w @brianschatz & @CoryBooker to prohibit any preemptive action w/o vote by Congress.— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) October 26, 2017
My bill w @brianschatz & @CoryBooker makes clear that any unauthorized preemptive strike on N Korea - nuclear or conventional - is illegal.— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) October 26, 2017
Mistake by Trump could kill hundreds of thousands on Korean Peninsula. My bill w @brianschatz @CoryBooker will clarify Trump's war powers.— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) October 26, 2017
Murphy's proposed legislation is of dubious legality. A president's constitutional authority as commander in chief to defend the country is necessarily very broad and restricting it would have a difficult time passing muster with the Supreme Court.
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Nutty lefties. Dangerous lefties.
Sheer idiocy.
Why did the “idiot side” of The Irish, settle in Mass of two shitts? Kennedy, Murphy, etc.? My wife’s family is Irish and there are no harder working, honest to a fault people in the entire world!
These democrats are fun to watch.
5.56mm
Yep, so we can allow NoKo to bomb us.... and they are Obamian acceptable losses?
It all makes perfect sense. Let them have time to build a bigger , better bomb, deliver it and keep on developing bigger and better technologies?
It’s so perfect... from the “death to America” cult in America.
Wow! The marxist muslim poster boy, BHO, was really onto something original!
FUBO and your ilk.
While you’re at it, introduce legislation giving Maxine Waters veto power over executive orders (sarc).
That will go nowhere LOL! But of course once it is squashed the dems will say “see, see they are a bunch of unstable nuclear warmongers”. It’s how the kiddies work.
1-Its stupid and will not pass.
2-Its stupid and would let NK know there are no consequences inhibiting Kim’s first strike.
It’s all fun and games until seoul gets nuked.
Btw, dems...are you willing to pay NK to not bomb everybody indefinately? Any amount of oppression and torture of their citizens is OK, and we should pay for it forever?
Unconstitutional.
Trump has to be able to do whatever is necessary, even if defending the country calls for a preemptive strike.
He just had better be able to justify it, and cannot commit us to War without Congress declaring it.
DEPORT DEMOCRATS to ENEMY LANDS
1) Democrats arm our ENEMY
2) Ban defending against our ENEMY
NEVER FORGET! If war goes nuclear.
Democrats NUCLEAR ARMED our enemies.
Same guys that don’t want us to have tax cuts. Idiots, every damn one of them.
The War Powers Resolution (also known as the War Powers Resolution of 1973 or the War Powers Act) (50 U.S.C. 1541–1548)[1] is a federal law intended to check the president’s power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. The Resolution was adopted in the form of a United States Congress joint resolution. It provides that the U.S. President can send U.S. Armed Forces into action abroad only by declaration of war by Congress, “statutory authorization,” or in case of “a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces.”
The War Powers Resolution requires the President to notify Congress within 48 hours of committing armed forces to military action and forbids armed forces from remaining for more than 60 days, with a further 30-day withdrawal period, without a Congressional authorization for use of military force (AUMF) or a declaration of war by the United States. The resolution was passed by two-thirds of Congress, overriding the veto of the bill from President Nixon.
It has been alleged that the War Powers Resolution has been violated in the past – for example, by President Bill Clinton in 1999, during the bombing campaign in Kosovo. Congress has disapproved all such incidents, but none has resulted in any successful legal actions being taken against the president for alleged violations
Guess the checks cleared.
Yeah, take it to congress so the commies in office can warn their NK buddies.
I guess we will have to write off a few cities. Hope its San Fran or LA.
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