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> How we forgot to repeal this law while in power is beyond me It's pretty clear that the laws are full of "extraordinary" powers for use in "extraordinary" si

• JumpCrisscross 1y ago
  > It's pretty clear that the laws are full of "extraordinary" powers for use in "extraordinary" situations When people talk about Congress ceding its power to the executive, this is what they're describing. It's a modern phenomenon, a product of lazy legislating. We need a generation of lawmakers to rewrite decades of statute to be clear about what the federal government has the power to do, and then have the discipline to end it there. No extraordinary powers. The Constitution already extraordinarily empowers the President in military emergencies. Other emergencies can be dealt by an emergency session of the Congress. (There is no reason the President should have emergency tariff powers, for instance.)
  • krapp 1y ago
    It was Congress who voted to change the definition of a calendar day so that the President's temporary emergency powers could last indefinitely. They aren't lazy, they're complicit.