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Trump Is Using Emergency Law to Impose Tariffs. Is That Legal?
- Bostonian 2y agohttps://archive.is/Hve3f https://archive.is/Hve3f
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- Terr_ 2y agoWhen discussing what'll happen, it's important to remember that the Republican party as a whole is behind these new "emergency" import taxes, not just Trump as a lone actor. In particular, the original IEEPA law requires that any motions to terminate the "emergency" must get voted on in ~18 days. However every House Republican moved to declare that somehow that the rest of the days this year don't count as time passing, for some reason. https://www.ntu.org/publications/detail/when-is-a-calendar-day-not-a-calendar-day-and-why-does-it-matter https://www.ntu.org/publications/detail/when-is-a-calendar-d...
- treetalker 2y agoProbably not, as an impermissible delegation of legislative power to the Executive (and for several other reasons).
- WarOnPrivacy 2y agoWarning, pedantic-ness ahead: Both parties + press + voters have been super comfortable with the Exec branch using EOs to expand it's power (ex:Reagan,EO12333). It seems to be driven by 'We like it when our guy does things'. I counter with (or try to): Not holding a reasonable PotUS accountable gifts power to the unreasonable one that follows. I don't think P+P+V understand this, however. Most disheartening is the decades of press apathy - because holding the powerful to account it is their actual, constitutionally-protected day job.
- keernan 2y ago>Most disheartening is the decades of press apathy - because holding the powerful to account High expectations of a press owned by the powerful