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U.S. Sen. Rand Paul this week weighed in on the Ferguson, Mo., grand jurys decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of an unarmed black man and the ensuing riots.
In an op-ed piece for Time magazine, the Bowling Green Republican noted the pleas from President Barack Obama and victim Michael Browns family.
I join their calls for peaceful protest, but also reiterate their call to action Channel your frustration in ways that will make a positive change.
Paul said the Brown incident and others point to problems in the justice system.
The war on drugs has created a culture of violence and put police in a nearly impossible situation.
In Ferguson, the precipitating crime was not drugs, but theft. But the war on drugs has created a tension in some communities that too often results in tragedy. One need only witness the baby in Georgia, who had a concussive grenade explode in her face during a late-night, no-knock drug raid (in which no drugs were found) to understand the feelings of many minorities the feeling that they are being unfairly targeted.
Paul told Politico there was a need to reform the criminal justice system, something he has noted on numerous occasions over the last year.
On Monday, Paul announced his plans to introduce in December a resolution to declare war of another kind against the terrorist group Islamic State.
If Congress approves the resolution, The president is hereby authorized and directed to use the Armed Forces of the United States to protect the people and facilities of the United States in Iraq and Syria against the threats posed thereto by the organization referring to itself as the Islamic State, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
Paul also noted this week, again in Time magazine, what he is thankful for: a Nigerian girl who had been kidnapped and avoided death and came to America.
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) thinks the White House is pushing increasingly ridiculous legal arguments in the fight against the Islamic State group (also known as ISIS).
In order to justify its airstrikes against the Islamic State jihadists, President Barack Obama's administrationhas cited authorizations for military force that date back to 2001 and 2002.
Paul, a likely presidential candidate in 2016, called that argument "absurd" four times in a Wednesday interview on Fox News. He noted the Islamic State didn't even exist in its current form at the time of the two authorizations.
"Both of those I'd say would be absurd contentions. Basically, in 2001 we voted for an authorization that said the people who attacked us on 9/11, that we would go after them. Well, this [ISIS] group wasn't in existence then, and this group isn't even allied with Al Qaeda. This group is at odds with Al Qaeda. So I think it's absurd," Paul told hostGreta Van Susteren. "It's absurd to try and say a linkage to a war started 15 years ago."
Earlier in the week, Paulunveiledwhat he views as a solution to the White House's legal problem: a formal declaration of war in Congress. His office said he plans to introduce it in December when the Senate returns to session.
In his Fox News interview, Paul further said when he confronted Secretary of State John Kerry over the US' legal argument for its military strikes against the Islamic State, Kerry gave him another questionable justification: the inherent powers of the presidency defined by Article 2 of the Constitution.
"The president absolutely, clearly, by almost any legal standard that I can imagine, is not violating the Constitution; he's upholding it. Article 2 gives the president the power to do what he's doing," Kerry told Paul in a congressional committee hearing in September. "The president has the right, as the president under Article 2, to defend this nation."
Paul was unimpressed with Kerry's position, which he characterized as giving Obama "unlimited power to go to war."
"He said which I think is absurd he said, 'Well if [the 2001 authorization] doesn't do it, then the president has Article 2 authority to do whatever he wants. I disagree with that. And I think most constitutional scholars do. And I think most of the people in the American public do not think the president has unlimited power to go to war," Paul recalled on Fox.
View the Fox News segment below.
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