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Some context: https://www.history.com/articles/national-state-of-emergency-us-presidents https://www.history.com/articles/national-state-of-emergency... https
by trelane 1y ago
Some context:
https://www.history.com/articles/national-state-of-emergency-us-presidents https://www.history.com/articles/national-state-of-emergency...
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/98-505 https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/98-505
- SilverElfin 1y agoThat’s a great link. A more specific example I’ll name is the IEEPA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Emergency_Economic_Powers_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Emergency_Econom...), which is a law for emergency economic powers that is being used (abused?) by the current administration to implement tariffs. Prior to this administration, the law had been invoked like 30 times. There are still emergencies declared under it that have been in effect, continuously, for more than 40 years!
- jauntywundrkind 1y agoWorth looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_emergencies_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_emergencies_i... too. While Biden had 9 emergency declarations, worth noting that every single one (one arguably) was targetted at very bad actors engaged in creating international strife & suffering. Ditto for Obama, +1 on bird flu.
- Lammy 1y agohttps://statesofemergency.com/ https://statesofemergency.com/