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States of emergency should at least go to congress for renewal every 3 months as a measure to be voted on individually (cannot be tied, for example, to budgets)
by teeray 2y ago
States of emergency should at least go to congress for renewal every 3 months as a measure to be voted on individually (cannot be tied, for example, to budgets). If that's not enough to kill it eventually, it should automatically become a ballot measure on the next Presidential Ballot after some number of renewals.
- whamlastxmas 2y agoThere’s a lot of common sense “should” statements that are true and will never happen
- abrichr 2y agoEmergencies must be renewed annually by the President. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_12170 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_12170: > The order was first declared on 14 November 1979 (EO 12170). At least 11 executive orders were based on this emergency state. The emergency, which was renewed in 2023 for the 44th time, is the "oldest existing state of emergency."
- teeray 2y ago> Emergencies must be renewed annually by the President. This is like agencies investigating themselves and inevitably finding themselves clear of any wrongdoing.
- kelnos 2y agoThat's equivalent to emergencies being permanent and not subject to oversight. There is very little difference between the president saying "there's an emergency until I say there isn't", and repeating every year, "there's an emergency for the next year". Though that Wikipedia article does say that Congress is supposed to review emergency orders, but in practice they just let the president do whatever.