RE: .”oh, just call it an emergency, and I can do whatever I want.”
Then what’s the point of the National Emergencies Act of 1976 when a justifiable invocation of it is deemed a bad precedent ? When is an Emergency an emergency?
We might as well repeal this act if we’re afraid to use it even when there is justification to do so.
You can’t compare Climate Change with the Swarm of Caravans after Caravans coming our way every month (another is on its way now even as I write this ).
Are tens of millions of illegals, nearly half of them coming from our Southern borders with the ensuing tens of millions of dollars we have to spend feeding, housing, educating and securing them not enough to declare an emergency?
Whereas, the so called Global Warming has been proven to be a non-crisis ( the world’s climate has gone COOLER the past two decades ).
One can be observed EMPIRICALLY, the other is scientifically disputed.
In November 1979 this power was invoked by the Carter administration blocking Iranian government property under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. IT IS STILL IN EFFECT TODAY.
We already have a precedent and that precedent is not even in our borders.
If invocation of this act is justified, IT IS BECAUSE IT NEEDS TO BE.
Good luck when the leftists and the progressives pull the same mental gymnastics to do the same thing, and a plurality of the country thinks it's a-okay.