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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDiscussion of Now Dems can do Emergency for our issues is driving me nuts...
Panel on Joy now....but it has been going on since Friday...NO NO NO..we don't let Trump change the rules...this is nuts and foolhardly...he can't change US Constitution and then we say ok now we can go crazy and be lawless too...
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Discussion of Now Dems can do Emergency for our issues is driving me nuts... (Original Post)
jodymarie aimee
Feb 2019
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That's not what's really going on. Dems are trying to make the point that
The Velveteen Ocelot
Feb 2019
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(119,646 posts)1. That's not what's really going on. Dems are trying to make the point that
if Trump can define an emergency as anything Congress won't give him, a Dem president could do the same, so they'd better be careful not to let Trump establish that precedent, lest it come back to bite them in the future.
jodymarie aimee
(3,975 posts)3. I get that part
but WAY too much chatter on it...O didn't do one for SandyHook or Flint...better to say it that way, no?
manor321
(3,344 posts)2. I agree. This framing is insane.
Claritie Pixie
(2,199 posts)4. I totally agree! When they talk like that, they are helping Beige Clump
in shredding our Constitution. It really pisses me off.
California_Republic
(1,826 posts)5. I get your point: you break the constitution
Then we will too