A Room Full of Wows - Republican House Committee Moves to Strip Trump of 9-11 AUMF

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Jennifer Scholtes‏ @JAscholtes

A room full of "wow"s after @HouseAppropsGOP adopted this AUMF repeal amendment by @RepBarbaraLee




Christina Wilkie‏ @christinawilkie 41m41 minutes ago
Wow is right. A Republican House committee is moving to strip Trump of authorization to use military force, which has been law since 9/11

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[MineralMan]

1. Hmm...why do I doubt this is going to get voted on?

[NewJeffCT]

10. True

Just like the senate voting 97-2 to increase sanctions on Russia - yet, not on tap to be voted on in the House.

[lark]

18. It was killed in the house.

Ryan took it off the table.

[dixiegrrrrl]

19. Juast as well..a lot could happen in 240 days...

Don't understand the long lead time till that bill would become law.

[get the red out]

2. I would love to know what was going on there

Might be some very interesting behind the scenes talk going on among Republicans.

I wonder if they are doing this because Trump is mentally ill? Or because he is a traitor?

[Shell_Seas]

5. Ironic, that he is either or both, and yet they still won't turn on him.

[get the red out]

8. Very much so!

He's a big turd in the middle of the floor, stinking up the place, that everyone pretends isn't there!

[Shell_Seas]

9. They don't live in reality

[Cracklin Charlie]

11. So strange to see them do something of actual benefit to the nation.

I am wondering whether to trust their motives.

[bigtree]

12. well, there's a longstanding goal of interventionists to craft a new, targeted AUMF

...because of the flimsiness of using the 9-11 one as justification, and the fact that they're itching for even more military interventions and would like a pass.

Of course, any ambiguity has been routinely ignored by successive presidents; relying on congressional unwillingness to take responsibility and control of military ops; and falling back on tortured declarations of threats to national security.

I'd think republicans are looking to craft a new, replacement AUMF, and I'd think we might even see that replacement AUMF alongside of any actual repeal that makes it to the floor.

There's our challenge.

[NightWatcher]

3. Because they all know he'll start a war in Korea when he's about to get impeached.

But her emails, right?

[tammywammy]

16. The WH is trying to use the AUMF to cover strikes in Syria.

[lindysalsagal]

4. 240 days: What's the point of 240 days grace period? 7-8 months from now?

What's happening march or april that will not be happening now?????

[Shell_Seas]

6. He could decide to do something tomorrow..

[lindysalsagal]

7. I know. Why not make it immediate? After the Nov 2018 mid-term?

[thesquanderer]

17. It needs a grace period, because as written, it requires an end to current activities...

...which have to be "wound down."

At any rate, if it actually got further in the process, the exact number of days and so forth would probably be further negotiated. I look at that number more as a placeholder for something to be determined.

I think the ability to use AUMF to begin a new action should end immediately, and only the portion about ending current activities that began under AUMF would be allowed a wind down period.

[Richard D]

13. 240 days . . .

. . . is a really long time.

[MrPurple]

14. Yeah, this part almost makes it not real. Gives Trump a time frame when to start shit

[IronLionZion]

15. It's time to end America's longest war

so they'll simply declare victory and go home

and then move on to North Korea or Iran or somewhere else. Maybe Iceland or Lichtenstein have gotten too uppity and need to be put in their place