Posted on 05/17/2020 12:09:34 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The day he declared the COVID-19 pandemic a national emergency, President Donald Trump made a cryptic offhand remark.
“I have the right to do a lot of things that people don’t even know about,” he said at the White House.
Trump wasn’t just crowing. Dozens of statutory authorities become available to any president when national emergencies are declared. They are rarely used, but Trump last month stunned legal experts and others when he claimed — mistakenly — that he has “total” authority over governors in easing COVID-19 guidelines.
That prompted 10 senators to look into how sweeping Trump believes his emergency powers are.
They have asked to see this administration’s Presidential Emergency Action Documents, or PEADs. The little-known, classified documents are essentially planning papers.
The documents don’t give a president authority beyond what’s in the Constitution. But they outline what powers a president believes that the Constitution gives him to deal with national emergencies. The senators think the documents would provide them a window into how this White House interprets presidential emergency powers.
“Somebody needs to look at these things,” Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, said in a telephone interview. “This is a case where the president can declare an emergency and then say, ‘Because there’s an emergency, I can do this, this and this.’” …
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Gawd you idiots are so stew pet.
His claim forced various Givenors to stand up and loudly proclaim their sovereignty
To which he said “Okay. You own the decisions for your state “
Now he can use their position as a cudgel and ask “You want 4 more years of that? Whyyy?”
Newsome spent $1 billion California taxpayer dollars on masis with a Chinese company @ a cost of $5 per.
He couldn’t find an American company to produce them for $2.50?
They only cost $0.10 to make...
I still say it's unconstitutional to quarantine well people.
Nor have they complained about the myriad of dem governors who are abusing their powers.
We are absolutely blessed to have a President like Trump who leans to the civil liberties side during this emergency and not a power hungry cunt or a simple minded puppet drooling in his basement rocking chair.
All that you need to say.
Oh, FFS. We have governors acting like little self-styled Stalins, locking down people, businesses, church services and gatherings of any type, encouraging friends, family and neighbors to snitch on “violators,” and extending those lockdowns at their own will and whim... and these idiots are concerned about TRUMP’S actions??
The truly frightening power is at the state level. That is why in Maryland we march and we sue.
Maybe there should be less of them.
But the dictatorial Lib governors don’t bother them - hypocrites.
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