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Presidents use emergency powers all the time - stop freaking out!

What You Say

Frequency is not the same as health. CRS and congressional war-powers literature treat emergency authorities as exceptions that expand when Congress fails to constrain them. Normalizing forever emergencies is how exceptions eat the rulebook.

The Stab

If everything is an emergency, nothing is oversight.

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