{"id":34221,"date":"2018-05-14T06:15:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T11:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34221"},"modified":"2018-05-14T06:15:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T11:15:33","slug":"congress-weighs-indefinite-detention-of-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34221","title":{"rendered":"Congress Weighs Indefinite Detention of Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Congress Weighs Indefinite Detention of Americans<\/a><\/h3>\n
A Senate bill under consideration could allow Donald Trump to indefinitely jail American citizens without charge if they oppose U.S. military action, says Marjorie Cohn.<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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\"\"<\/a>Under the guise of exercising supervisory power over the president\u2019s ability to use military force, Congress is considering writing Donald Trump a blank check to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens with no criminal charges. Alarmingly, this legislation could permit the president to lock up Americans who dissent against U.S. military policy.<\/p>\n

The bill that risks conveying this power to the president is the broad new Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF),\u00a0S.J.Res.59, that is pending in Congress. Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair Bob Corker (R-TN) and Democratic committee member Tim Kaine (VA) introduced the bipartisan bill on April 16, and it has four additional co-sponsors.<\/p>\n

This proposed 2018 AUMF would replace the 2001 AUMF that Congress gave George W. Bush after the\u00a0September 11\u00a0attacks. Although the 2001 AUMF authorized the president to use \u201call necessary and appropriate force\u201d only against individuals and groups responsible for the 9\/11 attacks, three presidents have\u00a0relied on it\u00a0to justify at least 37 military operations in 14 countries, many of them unrelated to 9\/11.<\/p>\n

But the 2018 AUMF would codify presidential power to make war whenever and wherever he chooses.<\/p>\n

S.J.Res.59 allows the president \u201cto use all necessary and appropriate force\u201d against\u00a0Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Libya and Somalia, al-Qaeda, ISIS (also known as Daesh), the Taliban and their \u201cassociated forces\u201d anywhere in the world, without limitation.<\/p>\n

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Kaine: Introduced bi-partisan bill. (Photo from US Department of Education)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

However, the bill contains no definition of \u201cco-belligerent.\u201d\u00a0A president may conceivably claim that a U.S. citizen who writes, speaks out or demonstrates against U.S. military action is a \u201cco-belligerent\u201d and lock him or her up indefinitely without charge.<\/p>\n

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Congress Weighs Indefinite Detention of Americans A Senate bill under consideration could allow Donald Trump to indefinitely jail American citizens without charge if they oppose U.S. military action, says Marjorie Cohn. Under the guise of exercising supervisory power over the president\u2019s ability to use military force, Congress is considering writing Donald Trump a blank check […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11928,3654,6963,3484,11979,525,1796,5765,20107,1237],"class_list":["post-34221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-aumf","tag-authorization-for-use-of-military-force","tag-consortium-news","tag-dissent","tag-marjorie-cohn","tag-military","tag-us-congress","tag-us-president","tag-us-presidential-powers","tag-us-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34222,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34221\/revisions\/34222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}