Trump Has Emergency Powers We Aren’t Allowed to Know About

The New York Times ^ | April 10, 2020 | Elizabeth Goitein and Andrew Boyle

[eastforker]

Given that they could make their first appearance in the coronavirus crisis, Congress should insist on having full access to them. The past few weeks have given Americans a crash course in the powers that federal, state and local governments wield during emergencies.

[dp0622]

lol

[Georgia Girl 2]

Apparently the NY. slimes has not read NDAA which authorizes the president to do all manner of things.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3864554/posts?page=4#4

/bingo

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[Vaquero]

Mysterious powers. Spooky powers like what the God they don’t believe in has.

[Still Thinking]

Well, since everyone that works over there at the Old Gray Slut (not you this time, Lizzie) are officially diagnosed imbeciles, how would it be helpful for you to know what those powers are?

[PLMerite]

“The President, by using the militia...”

That’s a can of worms the Left really doesn’t want opened.

[TBP]

Oh, dear, the president might stop the riots and restore order! Fascism is ddaening! Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!

[Agamemnon]

I have sent the following proposal to the White House comment line as well as Rush, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Chanel Rion (OANN), Bill O'Reilly, Graham Ledger (OANN), Greg Gutfeld, Charlie Kirk (Turning Point USA), and Jesse Waters.

Strategy: How Trump may preserve and protect the Federal Election process in 2020 and beyond

October surprise:

President Trump issues an E.O. requiring Voter ID for Federal Elections. There's the instant end to all the Mail-in ballot non-sense.

Next, post at least one armed, National Guard member in full gear at every polling place in the US and have an ICE Agent on call. Protection of all voters is therefore assured. (e.g., No more Blank Panthers with clubs at Philadelphia polling places)

Issuing such an E.O. like this would cause Dems to judge shop and impose an injunction, but President Trump would ram it straight up the United States Supreme Court (USSC) on an emergency hearing, due to the shortness of time before the election.

It might actually be law right now (I am not a lawyer), but have President Trump declare that all polling places involved in Federal elections are surrogate Federal facilities, for the time of polling, because they are handling Federal documentation for a Federal election, where Federal Electors are selected per Article 12.

An official government issued ID will be required to enter the surrogate Federal facility for the time that ballots remain at the polling location. This is literally Voter ID. After the polls close, the ballots are remanded to Federal custody, and ferried to a Federally secured location accompanied by the National Guard member(s) already stationed at the polling place.

Since the USSC building and Federal polling places are each deemed to be Federal facilities under the protection and control of routine Federal facility access practices, there would be a seamless solution to which USSC could not object either conceptually and legally.

The USSC would have to acknowledge that entry to the USSC requires a Federal ID as does entrance to every other Federal Building.

Federal Property Law and Legal Definition:

“20 USCS § 107e defines “federal property” as any building, land, or other real property owned, leased, or occupied by any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States (including the Department of Defense and the United States Postal Service), or any other instrumentality wholly owned by the United States, or by any department or agency of the District of Columbia or any territory or possession of the United States.”

Theory: Could polling places used in Federal Elections be considered to be “occupied” by “department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States,” such as the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, for instance?

The Civil Rights Division of DOJ is vested with assuring that the voting rights of citizens are upheld, and it is the division to which voting right civil rights complaints may be filed. In essence the DOJ would supervise a Federal election as it deputizes the polling place for temporarily housing a division of local Civil Rights Division units of the DOJ.

Thoughts?

FReegards!

[Publius]

President Trump issues an E.O. requiring Voter ID for Federal Elections.

I stopped reading right there.

Executive Orders are only for employees of the Executive Branch and the areas they control. Federal elections are under the control of Congress, not the Executive. Employees of the Executive Branch don't control elections. Only Congress can legislate Voter ID with the President signing the bill into law.

[faithhopecharity]

Interesting. Could he get enough agents? Or perhaps they could be assigned on a priority basis to wherever problematical voting practices have already occurred ( this would be like both the federal handing of the southern states after the first civil war and again recently under the voting rights act)

[gunnut]

Maybe the NYT should go look it up. Oh the federal code is so large no one can possibly know what is legal and what is illegal? Hmm, maybe that should have been the story for the last 50 years.

The US code is bad enough but then you add regulations on top, you have a tyrannical government that can find a reason to go after anyone that is not favored.

[Revolutionary]

Another big boomerang will soon hit the dems squarely in the face.

[Agamemnon]

I stopped reading right there.

Should not have stopped there. Read further. Already have the "control" as defined by the strategy. I have amended the Strategy to accommodate the Federal Employee point you have made.

Employees would not be "controlling the election," they would not be making people vote for one candidate or another, but would be enforcing the Civil Rights of voters who are present to vote:

"The USSC would have to acknowledge that entry to the USSC requires a Federal ID as does entrance to every other Federal Building.

"Federal Property Law and Legal Definition:

“20 USCS § 107e defines “federal property” as any building, land, or other real property owned, leased, or occupied by any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States (including the Department of Defense and the United States Postal Service), or any other instrumentality wholly owned by the United States, or by any department or agency of the District of Columbia or any territory or possession of the United States.”

"Theory: Could polling places used in Federal Elections be considered to be “occupied” by “department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States,” such as the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, for instance?

"The Civil Rights Division of DOJ is vested with assuring that the voting rights of citizens are upheld, and it is the division to which voting right civil rights complaints may be filed. In essence the DOJ would supervise a Federal election as it deputizes the polling place for temporarily housing a division of local Civil Rights Division units of the DOJ."

Another way to build on this Strategy: Have Trump declare poll workers temporary Federal Employees of the DOJ Civil Rights division for the duration of the election day. Pay them Federal minimum wage for the day. Who would refuse to be paid for doing something they likely weren't being compensated for to start with? Poll workers get compensated by proving they were there that day. There are ways to make things happen.

FReegards!

[Agamemnon]

Interesting. Could he get enough agents? Or perhaps they could be assigned on a priority basis to wherever problematical voting practices have already occurred....

Don't know how many agents exist, or could be deputized. Prioritization may even see more than one agent is some locales, and possibly just one in rural, low crime locales. Yes, I see this as possible.

FReegards!

[Redleg Duke]

The New York Times is the second largest open ward in the USA.

Berkeley is the largest.