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BumRushDaShow

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4. "If he does... Courts will immediately block him."

Reply to scheming daemons (Original post)

Fri Jan 25, 2019, 02:28 PM

Jan 2019

The courts won't have to block. From what I gather, there are dozens of "States of Emergency" in effect with at least one going back to Carter's Presidency -

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/list-31-national-emergencies-effect-years/story?id=60294693

I don't want to say that they are "meaningless" but in the grand scheme, they are. In his case he wants to be able to grab money out of a pot that has an appropriation (DOD) to give to some (probably Russian-associated) contractors.

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