The emergency powers scenario It's still unclear what route the administration would go if they choose to invoke emergency powers to attempt to start financing construction of portions of the wall.
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What about the quick strangulation of democracy using emergency powers?
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Another proposal would expand emergency powers for the prime minister.
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She oversaw a study in 2018 of presidential emergency powers.
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Madrid has threatened to use emergency powers to prevent that.
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Will Congress agree to the DOJ's request for emergency powers?
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"It's really easy to construct emergency powers," Mr. Rutzen said.
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To get around Congress, Trump seeks to use emergency powers.
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Under emergency powers, freedoms of assembly and press have been curtailed.
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Can the president use emergency powers to fulfil his campaign promise?
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I don't believe he should be declaring, using those emergency powers.
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The legal debate has focused so far on presidential emergency powers.
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Federal law gives Trump vast emergency powers in times of pandemic.
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Lam used emergency powers this month to introduce the mask law.
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Mr Trump could use emergency powers to enact these, he speculated.
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If Mr. Trump does invoke emergency powers, fierce criticism would follow.
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Or do you think his use of emergency powers is justified?
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Much of the time, Mr Erdogan has acted under sweeping emergency powers.
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Using emergency powers, he would divert $3.6 billion from military construction funds.
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The National Emergencies Act (1976) abolished scores of existing presidential emergency powers.
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Emergency powers introduced last summer have locked down much of the country.
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Jeffrey Toobin: Trump plans to invoke emergency powers to build border wall.
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That, he said, showed that the emergency powers had to be preserved.
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Some Senate Republicans are now looking to limit the president's emergency powers.
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In many cases, emergency powers have been temporarily necessary but permanently transformational.
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For example, President George W. Bush invoked emergency powers following the Sept.
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In 85033, Congress, at the time concerned about presidential abuse of emergency powers dating to the Great Depression and Korean War, enacted the National Emergencies Act, which imposed procedural constraints on the president's ability to use certain "emergency" powers.
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That would be far longer than prior uses of Energy Department emergency powers.
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Trump vowed to build a wall anyway, using emergency powers if need be.
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There is a way to use emergency powers to approve those things quickly.
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Lam's apparent suggestion that she could invoke emergency powers has deepened that concern.
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But he's also signaled that he may make novel use of emergency powers.
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Mayors from San Francisco to Providence, R.I., have also invoked their emergency powers.
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Safak Pavey, an opposition MP, argues that Mr Erdogan has weaponised his emergency powers.
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When it gives the president emergency powers, there is also little he cannot do.
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The Brennan Center for Justice has found 123 emergency powers the president can invoke.
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The administration has argued that using emergency powers on arms sales is not unprecedented.
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Trump's attempt to use emergency powers is virtually certain to be challenged in court.
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Israel granted its spy services emergency powers to hack citizens' phones without a warrant.
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Lam recently enacted, using emergency powers, in an effort to tamp down the demonstrations.
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I will use the emergency powers of the presidency to get going on this.
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That is very different from how emergency powers have been used in the past.
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It is considering invoking the International Economic Emergency Powers Act to impose such bans.
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"There have been very strong calls for the introduction of emergency powers," the adviser said.
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With the government exercising emergency powers, there is virtually nothing to check Mr Erdogan's crackdown.
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Hong Kong's Hang Seng dropped 1.1% after the government imposed emergency powers to quell protests.
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Murkowski has kept a low profile in the emergency powers fight since announcing her position.
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The president has emergency powers that were expanded after the terrorist attacks of November 2015.
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The Federal Reserve and Treasury are already launching programs to provide support through emergency powers.
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Without sufficient checks, emergency powers have the potential to undermine democracy and core civil liberties.
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Lam should invoke emergency powers under a colonial-era ordinance to extinguish the violent protests.
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What evil law will the government introduce next, after opening the floodgate of emergency powers?
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National emergency powers have the potential to weaken US democracy in all of these areas.
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Beyond the emergency powers, Mr. Hollande's government has already pushed through an expansion of surveillance laws.
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The opposition insists the laws are just as oppressive as the emergency powers they will replace.
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Ever since a violent coup attempt in July, he has ruled uncontested thanks to emergency powers.
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One legal vulnerability for the administration is the application of the emergency powers act to immigration.
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Trump is pondering a crude coal bailout involving national emergency powers in the Federal Power Act.
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Those emergency powers would: ► Allow patients to get medically-assisted treatment for opioid addiction through telemedicine.
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Similarly, Trump's immigration action was a new use of the emergency powers given to the President.
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Texas is abusing the state's emergency powers and we are filing suit today to stop it.
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Trump has repeatedly and abusively invoked emergency powers under the IEEPA as well as other legislation.
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Yesterday, he reiterated a threat to invoke emergency powers to fund his wall without congressional approval.
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During the standoff over border wall funding, he has made aggressive use of his emergency powers.
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Emergency powers change the legal landscape and allow for coordinative efforts among public and private sectors.
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Another path: Mr. Trump might invoke emergency powers to build his proposed wall without lawmakers' approval.
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Trump threatened on Thursday to use emergency powers to bypass Congress to pay for the proposed wall.
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Lam added that more draconian measures could be enacted under emergency powers, if protests continue to intensify.
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If we do this, the Democrats will use national emergency powers for something that we don't want.
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Rights groups say emergency powers led to harsh treatment of Muslims in particular, who number around 4m.
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The country's civil-liberties score declined because its legislature passed a law expanding the government's emergency powers.
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Lungu invoked emergency powers on July 5 to deal with "acts of sabotage" by his political opponents.
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The assembly has twice used its constitutional power to reject Mr Maduro's decrees granting himself emergency powers.
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Despite the administration using emergency powers, Congress can still block the sales until the weapons are delivered.
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With Americans against the shutdown and against the use of emergency powers, Trump could compromise with Democrats.
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The emergency powers at his disposal are significant but ill defined, and their use has no precedent.
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First, the US central bank invoked emergency powers on Tuesday to launch a commercial paper lending facility.
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If Mr. Trump does impose the tariffs, it would be an atypical use of his emergency powers.
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The president has said that without an agreement, he would use emergency powers to fund the wall.
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The emergency powers would allow Abe to close schools, cancel mass gatherings and closely manage medical supplies.
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This has included lethal force and the use of controversial "emergency powers" by the Hong Kong administration.
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And he has been outspoken in urging Trump to reconsider using emergency powers for the wall money.
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Veteran Republican senators raised various doubts about using his emergency powers to try to build the wall.
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And any reckless use of emergency powers would set a dangerous precedent for overriding the legislative branch.
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Once the horse runs out of the barn on expansive national emergency powers, nobody's putting it back in.
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The BBC reported Wednesday that Capriles accused Maduro of "putting himself above the constitution" by imposing emergency powers.
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The administration has argued that signs of an increased threat from Iran justify the use of "emergency" powers.
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Lam invoked colonial-era emergency powers and banned facial coverings in an aim to curb protests last week.
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"I would like to revisit the emergency powers that Congress has provided to the executive branch," said Sen.
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The emergency powers Trump invoked would allow him to reallocate funds only from certain programs, largely the military.
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Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, called on Trump to use emergency powers to fund the border wall's construction.
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And the Fed is invoking emergency powers to set up a special entity that will buy corporate bonds.
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But the president only gets emergency powers domestically that are given to him by federal law, Levitt explained.
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President Trump resists using emergency powers to compel production, saying companies will voluntarily provide much-needed protective gear.
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But the Supreme Court didn't find his argument for emergency powers convincing, and struck down the executive order.
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Second, it gives cover to leaders of allegedly democratic states to claim dangerous emergency powers during the crisis.
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That if we do this, the Democrats will use national emergency powers for something that we don't want.
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Lam invoked emergency powers in early October to ban face coverings during protests, she set off further demonstrations.
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But it isn't immediately clear whether Lam's use of emergency powers under a colonial-era law is legal.
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A coalition of 16 states led by California sued Trump this month over his use of emergency powers.
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Mr. Yilmaz's online news agency — like nearly all Kurdish publications — has been shut down under the emergency powers.
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According to the Brennan Center for Justice, Congress has granted the president emergency powers in 123 statutory provisions.
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The White House has raised the idea of invoking emergency powers to build the wall without lawmakers' approval.
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And then there was a Plan C: He said he could use "emergency powers" to build the wall.
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"The challengers are arguing that the president is using emergency powers unconstitutionally to access funds Congress has been unwilling to appropriate," says Liza Goitein, a co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, who authored an expansive explainer on emergency powers for the Atlantic.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt infamously used emergency powers to orchestrate the internment of over 100,000 Japanese-Americans during World War II. Yet as sweeping as they are, the president's emergency powers are no sure thing, and the historical example most comparable to Trump's possible pathway doesn't paint an optimistic outlook.
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The new legislation would see many of those emergency powers enshrined in law, with limited oversight from the judiciary.
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The emergency powers act has been used by presidents to impose sanctions on countries such as Iran and Sudan.
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Generally, emergency powers can help a president act in dire situations when executive branch's standard capabilities are too limited.
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It is certainly true that the Constitution lacks the careful restrictions on emergency powers that other countries' constitutions employ.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Emergency powers introduced in 2015 to counter the threat of terrorist attacks will be extended until Nov.
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But whether they do or not, it's time for Congress to revisit the current legal system for emergency powers.
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The law provides emergency powers to the governor including the ability to declare a moratorium on all bond payments.
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The existing declaration has aroused fears that the government is using its emergency powers to clamp down on critics.
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Rand Paul said Sunday that he could not support using emergency powers to get funding for Trump's border wall.
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Primarily, his authority under the Federal Reserve's emergency powers found in Section 13(85033) of the Federal Reserve Act.
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Under another option, Mr. Trump would issue an executive order against the Muslim Brotherhood using his presidential emergency powers.
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Explainer: The White House has raised the idea of invoking emergency powers to build the wall without lawmakers' approval.
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Through multiple statutes passed over decades, Congress has granted presidents considerable leeway to flex emergency powers during a crisis.
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A president's emergency powers are intended to be used for addressing sudden or unexpected events, not just serious problems.
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That has led Mr. Trump to consider using a president's "emergency powers" to order that the wall be built.
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But when lawmakers granted the president emergency powers in the first place, they built a check into the law.
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On Wednesday, Erdogan introduced emergency powers that let him bypass parliament for at least three months, legislating by decree.
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One key thing to know is that the emergency powers he is using evolved from the need for the President to act with decisive authority during war, specifically World War I. The Great Depression prompted the expansion of emergency powers to include economic emergencies, according to an analysis by the Congressional Research Service.
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Alexander also warned that if Trump sets this precedent, future Democratic administrations will use emergency powers to advance their agenda.
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Rick Perry could use his bogus grid study to declare emergency powers and override local decisions to close coal plants.
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Trump also once again threatened he might attempt to use emergency powers to build a border wall without Congress's approval.
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The other three areas are upper-house electoral districts, the right to free education and emergency powers for the cabinet.
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Whatever the result on April 16th, Mr Erdogan will remain in charge, free to use—and abuse—his emergency powers.
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Ige went so far as to call the camp an "unsafe situation" that justified the use of his emergency powers.
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Bob Murray, one such boss, implored the White House to use emergency powers to save several coal plants from bankruptcy.
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But its use could further anger critics who accuse Trump of abusing presidential emergency powers to achieve his political agenda.
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At this point, Republicans on Capitol Hill have not been informed that the President is going to utilize emergency powers.
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But it's unclear whether he has the authority to use presidential emergency powers to obtain federal funding without congressional approval.
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But unless he's willing to invoke those emergency powers, he can't stop the market from gradually turning away from coal.
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Trump finds excuses to take emergency powers, crack down on the free press and political opposition, the real dictatorship playbook.
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The central government disputes the vote's validity and has threatened to use its emergency powers to prevent a breakaway state.
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Because it usually isn't, and "emergency" powers have a funny way of surviving long after they've exhausted their intended use.
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Mask ban in Hong Kong: Amid increasingly violent protests, the territory's leader invoked emergency powers today to ban face masks.
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Tensions are simmering in Hong Kong after the city's leader invoked emergency powers to ban masks amid increasingly violent protests.
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The demonstrations came after Hong Kong's chief executive, Carrie Lam, invoked emergency powers on Friday to ban masks in public.
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In addition, the National Emergencies Act authorizes the president to declare a "national emergency" and trigger other federal emergency powers.
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Democrats, and even some Republicans, fumed after Trump used presidential emergency powers to reprogram military funds toward building the wall.
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It made some headlines by appealing to the Trump administration to use federal emergency powers to save its power plants, i.
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President Donald Trump on Friday said he has considered using emergency powers to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Trump has recently threatened to invoke emergency powers, which could allow him to use already appropriated military funding for his wall.
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Chris Murphy told BuzzFeed News that Republicans should be "very scared" of Trump vastly expanding the scope of presidential emergency powers.
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An anti-terrorism law, passed last November to replace the state of emergency, made permanent some of the government's emergency powers.
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"It is time for President Trump to use emergency powers to fund the construction of a border wall/barrier," he said.
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"Once you get into the specific area of emergency powers, then the president is acting within a delegated framework," she said.
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It enabled the police to make some useful searches and arrests at first, but these no longer justify the emergency powers.
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Still others talk of a new amendment giving the prime minister and self-defence forces emergency powers after a natural disaster.
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" He added, "It is time for President Trump to use emergency powers to fund the construction of a border wall/barrier.
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Why it matters: Most experts agree that Trump's use of a national emergency is a legally questionable use of emergency powers.
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Lindsey Graham issued a statement Thursday calling for President Donald Trump to invoke national emergency powers to fund his border wall.
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Trump, in turn, declared a national emergency, seeking to reprogram as much as $6.7 billion using emergency powers and other mechanisms.
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Trump said his lawyers had told him he had the power to invoke national emergency powers to get his wall funded.
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"It is time for President Trump to use emergency powers to fund the construction of a border-wall barrier," he said.
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Now, a slew of other options await, ranging all the way up to seeking emergency powers and even rewriting their charter.
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But Costa-Hawkins, the state [rent control] law, prohibits us from doing that in market-rate apartments, even with emergency powers.
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The fact that the act has been amended to apply to domestic emergencies underscores the tendency of emergency powers to expand.
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Lam ordered the crackdown as part of emergency powers announced today as pro-democracy protests continued in the semi-autonomous territory.
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Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Friday invoked emergency powers and banned face masks, saying the order goes into effect Saturday.
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Democrats now want to block Trump's ability to use transfer authority under emergency powers for the wall, a major sticking point.
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Specifically, he said, obstacles centered around abortion issues and Trump's use of emergency powers to transfer defense funds for the wall.
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Here is a primer on whether Mr. Trump can use emergency powers to proceed with the project without explicit congressional permission.
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When passing many emergency-powers laws, Congress attached a procedure that would let lawmakers override any particular invocation of that authority.
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President Trump declared on Friday that he would use emergency powers to fund the construction of a border wall, sidestepping Congress.
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Critics have accused the government of misusing its emergency powers to erode democracy and arrest opponents, including lawmakers, journalists and political activists.
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Four days after a new patriarch, chosen from Thai Buddhism's more austere fraternity, was installed the junta declared emergency powers over Dhammakaya.
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His emergency powers are broad, and he could veto a motion of disapproval which Congress is due to vote on (see article).
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Jordain Carney writes that Senate Republicans are digging in for a long fight over reining in the president's emergency powers (The Hill).
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More than 130 media organizations, including 45 newspapers, have been closed under broad emergency powers that have been extended until late January.
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Asked if a deal on amending a president's emergency powers would impact how he voted on the resolution of disapproval he demurred.
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The DEA had never backed down when using its controversial emergency powers to ban a substance, so the victor has broad ramifications.
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Mr. Rajoy said last week that, without such a clarification, he would use Madrid's emergency powers to take administrative control of Catalonia.
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While all 50 states have declared states of emergency, giving governors emergency powers, the policy response from states has been wide-ranging.
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Trump is abusing emergency powers in key legislation that previous Congresses should never have extended to the president in the first place.
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He has threatened to use emergency powers to impose the tariffs — an atypical use of the law that goes beyond his predecessors.
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After Catalonia's separatist lawmakers declared independence in late October, Mr. Rajoy invoked emergency powers for the first time in Spain's democratic history.
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If he did invoke emergency powers to postpone the election, there is some evidence that he could count on support from Republicans.
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In their thinking, simply asserting the emergency powers is a worrisome sign that Beijing will exert ever more influence over the city.
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Using his emergency powers to secure the money Trump believes he needs to build the wall would make his base very happy.
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They say emergency powers they had in 2008 are weaker today, like the power to make emergency loans to support troubled banks.
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In fact, not even the governor of Michigan, with emergency powers, can unilaterally suspend or modify a state law such as this.
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In both Victoria and NSW, firefighting officials have been granted emergency powers to forcibly relocate people, if necessary, according to the Guardian.
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The emergency powers allowed Trump to reprogram funds from military construction and other defense funds, but were set to expire on Saturday.
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But Mr. Trump's plan to build his border wall involves more than his invocation of emergency powers to redirect military construction funds.
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Yesterday: A federal judge rejected a House lawsuit seeking to stop Mr. Trump from using emergency powers to build a border wall.
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If Democrats don't ultimately bend to his will, Trump said he may grant himself emergency powers to build the wall without congressional approval.
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Those sources told ABC that other legal mechanisms are being considered before any decision on invoking the president's emergency powers would be announced.
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He only commented on Harvey disaster relief, however, and didn't voice an opinion on the broader idea of reprogramming funds through emergency powers.
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The National Emergencies Act (NEA) of 1976 sought to regulate the use of emergency powers; in practice, it has imposed only mild constraints.
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McConnell publicly supported the president's use of emergency powers, but his message was for the dozen Republicans who would defy Trump that day.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) recently said he warned Trump during a meeting at the White House against using emergency powers.
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Trump invoked the emergency powers on Friday after Congress declined to fulfill his request for $5.7 billion to help build a border wall.
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In that case of Youngstown in 22019, Justice Robert Jackson famously wrote an opinion that presidential emergency powers are tied to legislative action.
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Mr. Abe has also drawn some alarm by pushing for a law that would grant him emergency powers to deal with the virus.
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And even without policy changes, Trump has vast emergency powers that he could deploy right now to try to slow the coronavirus outbreak.
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) has asked Congress for a slew of new emergency powers, according to documents obtained and reviewed by Politico.
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Norway invoked emergency powers to close a wide range of public and private institutions, including schools and restaurants, and halt all sporting events.
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With their emergency powers, states like Maryland, Michigan, New Mexico, and Oregon are indeed doing just that by closing public and private schools.
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Wilson's efforts included leaning on emergency powers and executive orders to control the distribution of food and fuel as well as the railroad.
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When the Fed buys bonds using its emergency powers, it takes an asset out of the system in exchange for central bank cash.
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Those worries have been reinforced by the government's actions to quell the unrest, including invoking emergency powers to ban face masks during protests.
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And she recently used her emergency powers to single-handedly enact a ban on face masks at protests, bypassing the partially elected legislature.
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The leadership invoked emergency powers for the first time on Friday by imposing a ban on face masks, standard gear for the protesters.
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Two court rulings this week strengthened Democrats' hands in negotiations, finding that Trump's use of emergency powers to fund the wall were unlawful.
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Evers' announcement came the same day that 58 former national security officials issued a statement condemning Trump's use of his national emergency powers.
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The new resolution from Democrats comes as senators prepare to force a vote this month to undo Trump's use of the emergency powers.
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Norway invoked emergency powers to close a wide range of public and private institutions, including schools and restaurants, and halt all sporting events.
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He portrayed his invocation of emergency powers as a routine use of executive authority that was never controversial when his predecessors did it.
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After Lincoln's use of emergency powers to flex presidential power in ways not previously seen, Congress fought back against his successor, Andrew Johnson.
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Lungu invoked the emergency powers last week to deal with "acts of sabotage" by his political opponents, after fire gutted the country's biggest marketplace.
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Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, asked parliament to extend his emergency powers, granted to him after the failed coup in July, by 90 days.
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Democrats are already threatening to use emergency powers in future to pass their own preferred policies to address the things they think are crises.
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Mr Rajoy, with the backing of the Socialists and Ciudadanos, deployed emergency powers to dismiss Mr Puigdemont, but too late to prevent a crisis.
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House Democrats are expected to pass a resolution in coming weeks as a formal rebuke of the president's use of his national emergency powers.
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The French government has presented a draft counter-terrorism bill that President Emmanuel Macron, elected in May, wants to replace the temporary emergency powers.
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Trump plans to use emergency powers to secure $3.6 billion from the Department of Defense's military construction funds to build his proposed border wall.
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Trump has indicated he will use his emergency powers should Congress not come to an agreement to his liking over the next three weeks.
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That led right-wing parties to put pressure on Mr. Sánchez to use the executive's emergency powers to restore law and order in Catalonia.
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"If White House and Congress fail to reach a deal then President @realDonaldTrump must act through emergency powers to build wall/barrier," Graham tweeted.
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Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Friday invoked colonial-era emergency powers and banned face masks as protests in the city turn increasingly violent.
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Macron said last month his government would ask parliament to extend the emergency powers by several months while new legislation was being worked out.
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Serious commentators agree that the coronavirus pandemic presents a true emergency and fits within the intent of Congress in creating national emergency powers laws.
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"This limitless grant of emergency powers is tantamount to autocracy," a Philippine rights group, the Concerned Lawyers for Civil Liberties, said in a statement.
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The vote marked the second time this year that Congress has approved legislation challenging Trump's authority to invoke emergency powers to build his wall.
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The decision was a blow to the local government's ability to characterize the continuing protests as a situation requiring the invocation of emergency powers.
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At his town hall, Nadler said the President's use of his emergency powers to declare a national emergency along the Southern border was dictatorial.
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The White House has floated the idea of invoking emergency powers to build a wall along the country's southwestern border without approval from Congress.
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Democrats have also openly suggested that Trump is now giving them precedent to use emergency powers in the future to advance their own policy goals.
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"None of that can be achieved through the invocation of emergency powers, so a leader who serious about climate change would never go that route."
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This comes after Vice President Mike Pence told reporters the White House is actively exploring the use of emergency powers to build a border wall.
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Trump went so far as to say he will use emergency powers to build the wall, though it's unclear if he can even do that.
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Senator Lindsey Graham called on President Trump to "use emergency powers to fund the construction of a border wall/barrier" in a statement on Thursday.
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It could curtail emergency powers, say by changing the law so that emergencies expire automatically after a month or two unless Congress re-authorises them.
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A state of emergency declared by President Beji Caid Essebsi has been extended, giving the executive and military more emergency powers to tackle militant threats.
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The president said emergency powers would empower him to divert money from other accounts already approved by Congress, including military construction projects, to his wall.
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Chishimba hit the headlines in July after criticizing Lungu's decision to impose emergency powers and suggesting the president should go to hospital for mental tests.
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Past presidents have typically invoked emergency powers in good faith, and in ways that Congress intended—in response to terrorism or overseas conflicts, for instance.
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Elizabeth Goitein, a legal scholar at the Brennan Center for Justice, explored the history of federal emergency powers in a recent article in The Atlantic.
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The law is of dubious constitutionality, but it has never been tested by the courts, because Presidents have used emergency powers in relatively uncontroversial ways.
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Murray is literally asking the US president to use federal emergency powers to take control of an economic sector in order to save his business.
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The Nordic country has invoked emergency powers to close a wide range of public and private institutions, including schools and restaurants, to combat the epidemic.
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The mortgage industry, like many others, is turning to the Fed to invoke emergency powers and serve its role as the lender of last resort.
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The botched independence declaration prompted Mr. Rajoy to use his emergency powers to oust Mr. Puigdemont's government and take direct control over Catalonia from Madrid.
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Mr. Rajoy defended his handling of the conflict, saying that his emergency powers were "applied in an intelligent manner," without unsettling the administration of Catalonia.
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In March 1919, it introduced the Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act, popularly known as the Rowlatt Act, which extended its wartime emergency powers into peacetime.
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Authorities invoked emergency powers to regain control of one area of the country, where coca plantations and cocaine laboratories were discovered hidden in the hills.
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Over the weekend, tens of thousands of demonstrators massed in the city, many of them defying Lam's invocation of emergency powers to ban face masks.
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"This is another step in the continued direction of presidents using the emergency powers in ways I think Congress is increasingly concerned about," Blunt said.
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Armed with emergency powers, the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says it has taken over more than 800 companies worth a combined $10bn since July.
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Using emergency powers is one way Xi and Lam can attempt to keep a firm hand on the situation, without resorting to boots on the ground.
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Drawing on emergency powers, recently extended for another three months, it has removed 28 mayors from office and suspended over 11,000 teachers accused of PKK sympathies.
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Emergency powers allow the government to take swift measures against supporters of the coup, in which more than 246 people were killed and over 2,000 wounded.
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In the capital the government takes emergency powers, suspending a regional parliament after it illegally declares independence, assuming direct control of its police and civil service.
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With his country under a state of emergency since extremist attacks in November, Hollande did not seek to assume any new emergency powers over the economy.
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Several last-minute attempts — ranging from an alternative GOP proposal to killing the resolution of disapproval in exchange for future checks on emergency powers — fell flat.
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Presidential emergency powers have been received skeptically ever since the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the seizure of steel mills by President Truman during the Korean War.
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Typically, corporations are only involved in the solution, while grid operators — who make no profit from the use of emergency powers — themselves seek out the aid.
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When the new law takes effect on Wednesday, France will become the only country in Western Europe to establish de facto permanent state of emergency powers.
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But Macron's rhetorical condemnations of France's past sins are no solace to French Muslims watching his relentless push to make the state of emergency powers permanent.
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Several other Republican senators are undecided on how they'll vote on the House resolution, but have previously expressed concerns about Trump's use of emergency powers. Sen.
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Trump said on Friday he "may" attempt to invoke emergency powers to build the wall, although such a move would be expected to face legal action.
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The Liberal Democrats have also proposed amendments that could limit free speech deemed dangerous to the public interest and expand emergency powers for the prime minister.
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The main opposition party said his use of emergency powers was unnecessary and was a ploy to make it easier for police to arrest its supporters.
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On Tuesday, parliament extended Lungu's emergency powers by three months in an attempt to quash a spate of arson attacks on market places and court-houses.
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A Brennan Center for Justice report last month found there are more than 100 emergency powers a president can invoke when a national emergency is declared.
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In response, Trump has threatened to start construction unilaterally under his emergency powers if Congress refuses to yield to his demand for more than $5 billion.
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As an alternative, he reiterated his call that the Federal Reserve should step in and use emergency powers to help the island navigate its debt crisis.
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Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, pushed back on the idea of Trump using emergency powers on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday.
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Citing its emergency powers under Section 13(3) of the Federal Reserve Act, the central bank said it will purchase commercial paper from highly-rated borrowers.
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Mr. Trump, who said he was invoking emergency powers to impose tariffs of up to 25 percent on all Mexican goods, showed no signs of relenting.
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Yesterday: Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky said he would support a resolution to block Mr. Trump's attempt to use emergency powers to fund a border wall.
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US public health and disaster management authorities have unleashed a bevy of emergency powers at unprecedented levels since the inception of domestic cases of Covid-19.
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Mr. Rajoy can invoke emergency powers to suspend Mr. Puigdemont and give Madrid full administrative control over Catalonia, though such a step could provoke a backlash.
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El Salvador, which borders both countries, has imposed travel restrictions on its own citizens as well as foreigners, invoking emergency powers to suspend some constitutional rights.
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We need to make sure that future generations of financial firefighters have the emergency powers they need to prevent the next fire from becoming a conflagration.
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The city's embattled leader, Carrie Lam, drew on rare emergency powers to invoke the ban this month, prompting a wave of violent protests across the city.
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The discoveries came after the government gave emergency powers to the military in eastern Guatemala in response to the murder of three soldiers earlier this month.
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Mr. Trump periodically threatens to use emergency powers in new ways — to impose tariffs against Mexico, for instance, or to order American companies out of China.
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Since a failed coup a year ago, Mr. Erdogan has used emergency powers to purge and arrest tens of thousands of leftists, liberals, Kurds and others.
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Trump wouldn't have it, and was only willing Thursday morning to endorse the idea of reining in national emergency powers after the vote on the resolution.
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From the Great Depression through the Cold War, presidents systematically abused emergency powers granted them by Congress in some 470 statutes, culminating in the Watergate fiasco.
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"It is time for President Trump to use emergency powers to fund the construction of a border wall/barrier," he said later in a brief statement.
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The emergency powers now in effect allow the police to conduct raids of homes, businesses, associations and places of worship without judicial review and at any time.
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Trump said Friday he has considered using emergency powers to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, a move that would almost certainly draw legal challenges.
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The announcements on Monday came days after Trump himself confirmed reports that he has considered using his emergency powers as a tool to fund the border wall.
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In May, the California Public Advocates Office called on the Public Utilities Commission to exercise emergency powers to ensure that communications systems continue to operate in emergencies.
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In order to enact such a ban the Chief Executive Office will invoke the city's colonial-era Emergency Regulations Ordinance, which grants the government sweeping emergency powers.
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The big picture: Trump wants roughly $8 billion to build a wall on U.S.-Mexico border, $3.6 billion of which he plans to access with emergency powers.
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Even if Trump successfully uses his emergency powers to appropriate $5.7 billion from the military budget, the result will still be only 100 miles of new barriers.
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And unlike the original emergency powers, which targeted specific areas, the new law would extend jurisdiction for stop-and-frisk operations far beyond train stations and borders.
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Republicans are digging in for a long fight over reining in the president's emergency powers, setting up a potential clash with both the White House and Democrats.
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The second problem is that conservatives inside and outside Congress worry about the precedent that would be set by Trump using emergency powers to circumvent the legislature.
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Notwithstanding the legal fig leaf of the Emergency Powers Act, the president's action constitutes a frontal assault on this principle and the values animating our political order.
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But we ought not to let such arguments distract us from the fact that this use of emergency powers is contrary to the spirit of our Constitution.
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This idea was used to justify the grant of emergency powers to the German President under Article 48 of the Weimer Constitution, enabling Hitler's rise to power.
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"I believe the use of emergency powers in this circumstance violates the Constitution," said Senator Jerry Moran, Republican of Kansas, in a statement written on lined paper.
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Mr. Trump was the first president to threaten tariffs using the emergency powers act and the first to invoke it to punish a close ally like Mexico.
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When Congress last overhauled emergency powers laws in the 1970s, it wrote few standards governing what counts as the sort of emergency that a president can declare.
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Pat Cipollone, the White House counsel, and Peter Navarro, a trade adviser, had also argued that emergency powers gave the president broad authority to impose the tariffs.
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In addition to using statutory emergency powers, presidents have engaged in the dubious practice of "signing statements" that indicate their intent to honor only parts of legislation.
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Armed with emergency powers in many areas, public health officers have vast discretion over what information they want, and do not want, to release to the public.
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Two large marches on Sunday afternoon were the first significant public gatherings since the ban took effect the day before, under a rarely invoked emergency powers law.
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The Socialist government has threatened to use its emergency powers to restore order, potentially putting Catalonia back under direct rule from Madrid, as happened in October 2017.
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Violent protests erupted across the Chinese-ruled city hours after its embattled leader Carrie Lam invoked colonial-era emergency powers last used more than 50 years ago.
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Violent protests erupted across the Chinese-ruled city hours after its embattled leader Carrie Lam invoked colonial-era emergency powers last used more than 50 years ago.
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Democrats opposed to Trump's redirection of funds for the wall have insisted on including riders that would block Trump from using emergency powers to empty relevant accounts.
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Before he tried to use emergency powers to build the wall, 46% of voters in the 2018 exit poll said Trump's policies were too tough on immigration.
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The idea behind emergency powers laws is that Congress wanted the president to have standby authorities to activate in a crisis, when the government must respond quickly.
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In the 11-page statement, the former officials demand that the White House provide evidence of a crisis in which the use of emergency powers is appropriate.
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Madrid is expected to push legislation through its Senate Friday that grants it emergency powers to take control of Catalonia's parliament and remove its president, Mr. Puigdemont.
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The law, enacted by Chief Executive Carrie Lam using colonial-era emergency powers, has stoked a swift backlash among protesters and worries about a crackdown on civil liberties.
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Jessica Levinson, a professor at Loyola Law School, agreed with Schwinn that it would be tough to prove that Trump exceeded his authority under the emergency powers act.
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By hastily invoking emergency powers, the White House has largely avoided making a public case for why the blacklisting was necessary — a move that's already causing political damage.
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A federal judge in D.C. has rejected an effort by House Democrats to block President Trump's use of emergency powers to reprogram military funds for his border wall.
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The president could cut out Congress and award himself emergency powers, allowing him to spend money on the wall as "military construction", even as he reopens the government.
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Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and Thom Tillis — have indicated they will vote to block the declaration, while several others have expressed concerns about Trump's use of emergency powers.
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This is why they tried to talk Trump out of invoking national emergency powers and why they're now in a no-win situation as they prepare to vote.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional Democrats on Wednesday criticized a plan to divert money from Defense Department projects to fund President Donald Trump's U.S.-Mexico border wall under emergency powers.
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He's also invoked emergency powers to slap sanctions on human rights abusers around the globe and on members of the Nicaraguan government amid corruption and violent protests there.
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Cabana said investors want the Fed to invoke its emergency powers to launch lending programs aimed at helping parts of the economy getting clobbered by the coronavirus pandemic.
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The Catalan leader warned that regional lawmakers could declare independence if the central government assumed emergency powers over the region, upon which Madrid threatened to do just that.
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Rafael Catalá, Spain's justice minister, warned Monday morning that the central government in Madrid was prepared to use its emergency powers to prevent a unilateral declaration of independence.
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"The President's abuse of emergency powers to override the will of Congress is a blatant power grab," Sarah Burt, lead attorney for Earthjustice, said in a written statement.
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That help could potentially include access to loans and liquidity programs provided by the Federal Reserve, which would require Congress to loosen rules governing the Fed's emergency powers.
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is seeking emergency powers to allow him to redistribute funds and order private and state-run businesses to help the fight against the spread.
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Automakers have retooled plants to build ventilators, but received mixed messages from the administration, which last week invoked emergency powers to compel the production of the lifesaving machines.
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Speaking at an event this week, executive councilor Bernard Chan refused to rule out using emergency powers but said that they would be used with restraint if implemented.
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The opposition asked for a time limit on Orbán's emergency powers, but the prime minister's ruling Fidesz party had the majority to push the law through without alteration.
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Under the National Emergencies Act — a post-Watergate law intended to rein in presidential emergency powers — the president needs to renew the emergency each year or it lapses.
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Since then, issues surrounding Trump's border wall, immigration detention, abortion and the president's use of emergency powers to transfer military funds toward the wall have repeatedly impeded progress.
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House Democrats introduced a resolution last week to block his effort to build a wall through his emergency powers, even though Trump has promised to veto the measure.
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Lawmaker Dennis Kwok told the news service that the high court did agree to consider a request by dozens of legislators opposed to Lam's use of emergency powers.
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Democrats point out, however, he has emergency powers due to the hurricane and other hurricane-stricken states, such as South Carolina, extended their deadlines as Hurricane Matthew menaced.
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Britain just raised its threat alert to the highest level, and the new French president, Emmanuel Macron, is seeking an extension of emergency powers for three more months.
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On Friday, Lam invoked the emergency powers for the first time in more than 50 years to outlaw face masks, which protesters have used to shield their identities.
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Of the 58 times presidents have declared emergencies since Congress reformed emergency-powers laws in 1976, none involved funding a policy goal after failing to win congressional approval.
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And the administration has so far been unable to explain exactly what it is doing with its emergency powers, or what money it is lavishing on its wall.
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In early October, Hong Kong's leader, Carrie Lam, invoked emergency powers to ban face masks at protests, making it punishable by fines and up to a year in prison.
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But experts say the Hong Kong government's failed efforts to stop the protests by evoking emergency powers could move Hong Kong closer to a more aggressive response from Beijing.
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Many of the government's emergency powers, including the right to sack judges and civil servants on vague national-security grounds, have found their way into a new security law.
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Lam, the city's leader, said at a news conference Tuesday her government had no plans to use emergency powers to enact new laws but did not rule it out.
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Experts say the government's move to invoke emergency powers as well as the protesters' targeting of Chinese-owned business could move Hong Kong further toward a possible Chinese intervention.
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If the talks are dead, Trump is so dug in he has only two options: shut down the government again or use his emergency powers to get the money.
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Trump, warning that immigrants bring crime, drugs and disease flooding across America's southern border, threatens to invoke emergency powers that would let him to build a wall without Congress.
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Taken together, the June and May rulings block $2.5 billion of the $6.7 billion the Trump administration hoped to use for the wall through the president's national emergency powers.
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Trump invoking emergency powers is indicative of how far he'll go to appease his base — Trump is so hell-bent on his wall, it seems he'll try almost anything.
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Fifty-nine percent of registered voters in the poll said they believed Trump's action was an inappropriate use of emergency powers and it is likely to be struck down.
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Beijing-backed Lam banned face masks last month, invoking colonial-era emergency powers for the first time in more than 50 years, but protesters have largely ignored the ruling.
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Why it matters: Trump's decision to invoke his emergency powers is sure to anger both Democrats and some Republicans because of the precedent it could set for future administrations.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 4 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he could use emergency powers to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border without approval from Congress.
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Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, said Sunday that Trump told him earlier in the day that he's still considering using his emergency powers to secure funding for the wall.
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The split over the use of national emergency powers underscores the divisions over border security that triggered the ongoing partial government shutdown that has lasted 85033 days and counting.
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Last month, the Trump administration also invoked emergency powers in order to sell arms to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates without a 30-day congressional review period.
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Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has invoked colonial-era emergency powers and banned facial coverings as a "deterrent" against violent protests which have rocked the city for four months.
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The latest ABC News/Washington Post poll finds that only 31% of Americans support the use of emergency powers to build the wall and an astounding 66% are opposed.
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He has used every legal means, as well as extraordinary emergency powers since a failed coup in 2016, to steadily turn Turkey into an authoritarian system under his thumb.
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Mr. Trump said he would shut down the government again or invoke emergency powers to build a wall if Congress doesn't offer a solution he likes by Feb. 15.
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The National Emergencies Act of 1976 authorized the president to initiate emergency powers of government, but with the condition that he or she specify the particular provisions in detail.
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Lam could bypass the process with her emergency powers and name a lot of young, pro-Beijing judges, but that would undermine Hong Kong's international reputation for judicial independence.
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Lam could, if she deemed necessary later, use the emergency powers to impose a curfew or empower the police to search phones more easily without warrants, among other measures.
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On Sunday morning, Hong Kong's high court heard a challenge to the law by pro-democracy lawmakers, critiquing how the law was put in place by invoking emergency powers.
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Significant numbers of candidates stood on both sides of ideas like curtailing future presidents' latitude to invoke emergency powers and to choose acting agency heads when temporarily filling vacancies.
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But they cautioned against getting carried away with deregulation, and Geithner expressed concern that the emergency powers they were able to draw on in 2008 are "somewhat weaker" today.
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Sixteen states have banded together to challenge President Trump's declaration of a national emergency at the border, setting up a constitutional clash over the scope of presidential emergency powers.
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The Department of Justice is seeking new emergency powers amid the coronavirus pandemic that would allow for people to be detained indefinitely without trial during emergencies, Politico reported Saturday.
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Trump case put forward by the ACLU in February against the president's emergency powers declaration, but would be a "separate and entirely new motion," per ACLU spokesperson Abdullah Hasan.
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Lawmakers were incensed by the administration's announcement that it is using emergency powers to bypass Congress for $8.1 billion in weapons sales — including munitions, aircraft parts and other supplies.
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Elizabeth Goitein, a lawyer at the Brennan Center for Justice, said there were strong arguments that border wall construction is impermissible under various statutes granting the president emergency powers.
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In this climate, it's only natural that Trump's decision to tap into emergency powers, a well-documented sign of democratic breakdown, would cause conflict scholars' antennae to go haywire.
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CEO Robert Murray has long pushed for a bailout for the plant, urging Trump to use federal emergency powers to save it and even musing about buying the plant himself.
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"We need people to stay together, we want to move fast with broad backing," said government spokesman Stephane Le Foll as lawmakers prepared to debate the latest emergency powers bill.
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Trump was able to transfer billions of dollars to the wall through emergency powers after a fight over wall funding triggered the longest government shutdown in U.S. history last year.
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It would be "categorically inadmissible" for the European Union's High Representative to use his emergency powers in relation to the referendum, said Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for the Russian foreign ministry.
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What it will do is set a potentially troublesome precedent by using emergency powers to break a legislative impasse and tie up the wall funding in litigation, perhaps for years.
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With tension rising four days after the military government ordered emergency powers to be used in the search, monks and police pushed and shoved at one of the temple gates.
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The president and his team seem focused on finding a way around Congress by using emergency powers to redirect money for the wall, which would be challenged in court immediately.
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He has since put forward another proposal that would use emergency powers based on national security to require markets to buy enough power from the plants to keep them online.
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Critics say the emergency powers will be used to harass political opponents after last year's bitter and violent election, which Hichilema's United Party for National Development (UPND) says was rigged.
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But the sweeping emergency powers granted to Mr. Erdogan after the failed military coup against him, by supporters of the exiled Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, have greatly accelerated the crackdown.
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The DOJ should withdraw its request for emergency powers and continue to pursue justice -- as it has throughout its history -- within the existing rules, and consistent with established Constitutional principles.
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This change potentially unleashed presidents to use the congressionally delegated emergency powers in ways that contradicted the will of congressional majorities — an opportunity Mr. Trump is now taking advantage of.
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Chan and others have made clear that any use of emergency powers would be done in a way that wouldn't affect Hong Kong's economy or status as a financial center.
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Later in the week, Chief Executive Carrie Lam refused to rule out invoking emergency powers and a prominent protest organizer was attacked by masked men carrying baseball bats and knives.
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New York law already provides for emergency powers for the governor and health officials, but state lawyers are examining whether changes might be necessary to address this threat, officials said.
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Democrats opposed providing an additional $5 billion for the wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, and insisted that other bills should block Trump from using emergency powers to reprogram funds.
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"We've never had a case where a president has asked for money, been refused the money by Congress, then use the national emergency powers to spend it anyway," Alexander said.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump's plan to spend billions of dollars more on his border wall than Congress approved involves more than his invocation of emergency powers to redirect military construction funds.
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Emergency powers statutes are laws enacted by Congress that permit the president, upon declaring the existence of a national crisis, to take steps that would normally be forbidden by law.
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Violence in Hong Kong has become more acute since the city's leader, Carrie Lam, used colonial-era emergency powers to ban citizens from wearing masks at public gatherings earlier this month.
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Earlier this month, she used colonial-era emergency powers to ban citizens from wearing masks at public gatherings, but this led to a major uptick in violence, and widespread international criticism.
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In a twist of coincidence, "Joker" was released in Hong Kong just one day before authorities used colonial-era emergency powers to ban face masks and face coverings during public assemblies.
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Pumped for the next Democratic president to use "emergency powers" for a Green New Deal (climate emergency), Medicare for All (public health emergency), and a new Voting Rights Act (democracy emergency)!
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How it's playing: Trump's decision to invoke his emergency powers has drawn backlash from both Democrats and some Republicans who are concerned about the precedent it could set for future administrations.
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The Trump administration has rejected a coal industry bid for the sweeping use of federal emergency powers to keep coal-fired power plants operating, according to a detailed Associated Press report.
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Trump invoked the emergency powers on Friday under a 1976 law after Congress rebuffed his request for $5.7 billion to help build the wall that was a signature 2016 campaign promise.
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"I think there's probably still enough members" that it would pass, said Thune, asked if a deal on amending Trump's emergency powers could result in the resolution failing in the Senate.
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"Fox News Sunday" anchor Chris Wallace repeatedly pressed Miller to provide another example of a president invoking national emergency powers to get money that Congress denied him through the appropriations process.
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Other uses of emergency powers: In response to clashes between U.S. and Cuban vessels, Clinton invoked a power allowing the Transportation Department to better regulate the movement and inspection of ships.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced last month that the U.S. would use emergency powers to bypass Congress on 22 arms deals with the Saudi government and other neighboring Arab states.
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The attack, in which two young men under watch by the French authorities killed an 85-year-old priest, raised troubling questions about the limitations of France's emergency powers against terrorism.
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The president said he's considering using national emergency powers to build the wall, a move that would inflame tensions with a divided Congress and raise legal questions about his executive authority.
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LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambian President Edgar Lungu said on Thursday he had invoked emergency powers to deal with "acts of sabotage" by his political opponents, after fire gutted the country's biggest market.
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New York (CNN Business)The Federal Reserve invoked emergency powers Tuesday to launch a new program that will seek to unfreeze a $1 trillion market that keeps the American economy moving.
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The Norwegian government has invoked emergency powers to close a wide range of public and private institutions and warned against foreign travel, while the central bank has poured money into banks.
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The Ron Paul libertarian who was skeptical of government power then now supports President Trump's efforts to seize emergency powers for a border wall at home while declaring trade wars abroad.
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Dr. Nelson has had more than 20,600 nursing students displaced by the clinical policy change; she said the temporary rule change can be enacted through use of the governor's emergency powers.
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Should Mr. Puigdemont be re-elected, Mr. Rajoy warned that he could extend Madrid's direct rule over Catalonia, using the same emergency powers that forced Mr. Puigdemont's ouster three months ago.
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And, finally, the governor should direct prison and jail administrators to furlough low-risk inmates and use his own emergency powers to extend those furloughs through the end of the crisis.
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Defense Minister Luis Miguel Ralda told reporters that 2,000 soldiers had been sent as part of the mission following a declaration of emergency powers granted by the Congress two days ago.
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Hong Kong government officials have been discussing whether the city's leader, Carrie Lam, should invoke emergency powers to impose a ban on face masks, said Ronny Tong, a member of Mrs.
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HONG KONG — When Hong Kong's leader invoked emergency powers to ban face masks during protests, she went to great lengths to explain that the city wasn't in a state of emergency.
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He's gotten changes in the constitution giving him emergency powers and allowing him to exercise his authority even when he is out of the country — which is most of the time.
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The ruling that overturned the face-mask ban, issued by the city's High Court, was a blow to the local government's contention that the protests required the declaration of emergency powers.
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So far, Mr. Rajoy has resisted calls by more hard-line elements of his conservative electorate to use emergency powers granted under Spain's Constitution to seize back administrative control of Catalonia.
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His administration then announced that it would use emergency powers to raid funding from 127 military construction projects, including ones for weapons maintenance shops, crash fire rescue stations and cyberoperations facilities.
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The government decided to impose the ban under the law giving police sweeping emergency powers in a special meeting of the city's Executive Council, media outlets TVB and Cable TV reported.
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Thousands of activists rallied on Monday night, the first with government permission since the introduction of colonial-era emergency powers, which sparked some of the worst violence since the unrest started.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt claimed emergency powers to fight the Great Depression and World War II. President George W. Bush adopted an expansive concept of White House power after 9/11.
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One reason may be that property is a highly specialized field of law, and there just aren't that many lawyers who can speak authoritatively on both emergency powers and eminent domain.
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The legislative responses available to Democrats are few, given that the courts have largely ruled in the administration's favor when it comes to emergency powers and the transfer of Pentagon funds.
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But he sidestepped questions about whether Mr. Trump could lawfully redirect military funds to build a wall without congressional authorization, as the president has threatened to invoke emergency powers to do.
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A group of 26 states, led by California, challenged President Trump in court on Monday over his plan to use emergency powers to spend billions of dollars on his border wall.
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"I believe the use of emergency powers in this circumstance violates the Constitution," said Senator Jerry Moran, Republican of Kansas, in a statement written on lined paper and published on Twitter.
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Congress has failed to overturn the emergency powers Trump has used to win money for the wall, and GOP appropriators stopped Democrats from blocking his transfer authority in last year's spending bill.
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Republicans will also try to use budget reconciliation to kill the funding and emergency powers given to the FDIC to deal with a failing financial institution, should the Lehman Brothers scenario recur.
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France has published a draft law that would grant the government emergency powers to implement measures that could minimise the disruption in the event of no deal: it makes for sobering reading.
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So if the Trump administration wants to dramatically cut the death rate from opioid overdose, it should use its emergency powers to strip away the bureaucracy associated with obtaining methadone or buprenorphine.
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MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine president has threatened to resort to emergency powers and enforce them "to the hilt" to deal with relentless criticism over his human rights record, crimes and government wrongdoing.
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Context: Murphy and Young's measure comes after senators last week introduced 22 resolutions to block the arms sales Trump used emergency powers to approve for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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Adam Schiff, who said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" that he did not think Trump would be able to use emergency powers to build a wall at the southern border.
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"I would hate to see it," he said on CNN's "State of the Union" when pressed on the president's threat to end a stalemate over border wall funding using his emergency powers.
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"The blatant misuse of emergency powers to shut down media houses must stop, and more than 130 journalists currently in pretrial detention must be immediately released," Amnesty International said in a statement.
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But it arrives as the White House is weighing much more aggressive moves, via other agencies, that would use sweeping emergency powers to keep economically struggling coal and nuclear plants in operation.
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Mr. Rajoy has emergency powers that would allow him to suspend from office Mr. Puigdemont and his fellow separatists and take control of Catalonia, but such a move carries its own risks.
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Other countries have declared a state of emergency and gone into lockdown, but Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said the situation in Japan does not yet warrant his use of emergency powers.
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President Trump has already vowed to shut down the government again, or invoke his emergency powers to build a wall, if Congress does not offer a solution he likes by the deadline.
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To end this essentially pointless standoff of his own making, he is exploring the use of national emergency powers to build a wall Congress and a majority of the public don't want.
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The leadership's decision to invoke emergency powers for its mask ban only heightened fears about the erosion of civil liberties, prompting more violent protests and clashes with the police on Friday night.
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The city was taking a breather from a night of unrest that erupted after Hong Kong's chief executive, Carrie Lam, invoked emergency powers to quell antigovernment protests that have grown increasingly violent.
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Within an hour of the Parliament's vote, the Spanish Senate in Madrid voted to give Mr. Rajoy emergency powers, under Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution, to end the drive toward secession.
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There are emergency powers that a president could potentially use to shut down the internet, but none that provide all the authorities and resources that will be necessary to address global warming.
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The committee also rejected two Democratic amendments to the $6900 billion bill that would strip out the wall money and block Trump from using emergency powers to reprogram funds from other accounts.
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Since a failed coup attempt in July, he has used emergency powers to crack down on his opponents, suspending or dismissing tens of thousands of civil servants, police officers, academics and others.
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Of 11 experts that Vox recently asked whether Trump can use emergency powers for the wall, only one -- George Mason University law professor Ilya Somin -- discussed the property rights angle in detail.
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U.S.: A coalition of 16 states, including California and New York, challenged President Trump in court over his plan to use emergency powers to spend billions of dollars on his border wall.
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The clash raises questions over congressional control of spending, the scope of emergency powers granted to the president, and how far the courts are willing to go to settle such a dispute.
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Maduro has since 2015 employed emergency powers to unilaterally block access to certain online media sites, including local outlets such as El Nacional and La Patilla, and international sites, including CNN en Español.
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And last December, 4-CCB was also temporarily added to the list of controlled substances via emergency powers invoked by Hawaii law enforcement officials following several drug seizures by officials that same month.
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Last week, Trump confirmed that he has considered using his emergency powers, such as declaring a national emergency, as a tool to circumvent asking Congress for funds to build his long-promised wall.
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Instead, they said they would continue to negotiate with Democratic leaders over the weekend, with Trump adding he might also consider using national emergency powers to obtain wall funding if talks break down.
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As far as the statute goes, the answer is maybe — although no president has previously used emergency powers to spend money denied by Congress, and it was clearly not intended to do that.
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Arun Shourie, a disaffected former minister from the BJP, accuses Mr Modi of pursuing the "Indirafication" of politics, a reference to Indira Gandhi, a former prime minister who awarded herself sweeping emergency powers.
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President Trump kept his demand for border wall funding in Tuesday night's State of the Union address, but stopped short of invoking national emergency powers to get funds for his long-sought project.
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Fifteen Democrats in the Republican-controlled Senate introduced legislation on Thursday to prevent Trump from invoking emergency powers to transfer funds to his wall from accounts Congress has already committed to other projects.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Rights group Amnesty International accused France on Wednesday of using emergency powers to fight terrorism as a pretext for clamping down on peaceful protests, including over sensitive environmental and labor issues.
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The report comes just days after President Emmanuel Macron said his government would ask parliament to extend by several months the emergency powers introduced in 2015 to counter the threat of militant attacks.
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Venezuela's National Assembly rejected a request by the president, Nicolás Maduro, for emergency powers to deal with an economic crisis caused by a combination of low oil prices and the government's populist policies.
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The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California came after Trump invoked emergency powers on Friday to help build the wall that was his signature 2016 campaign promise.
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A President Bernie Sanders or President Elizabeth Warren might find it politically untenable among their supporters to use emergency powers to fight climate change if Mitch McConnell blocks meaningful legislation in the Senate.
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Maduro issued the decree through economic emergency powers that allow him to pass legislation without the approval of Congress, which is controlled by the opposition following last year's sweeping victory in legislative elections.
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A non-partisan congressional agency said this week the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has failed to use its emergency powers in response to the discovery of lead-contaminated water in Flint, Michigan.
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Fifteen Democrats in the Republican-controlled Senate introduced legislation on Thursday to prevent Trump from invoking emergency powers to transfer funds to his wall from accounts Congress has already committed to other projects.
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This heavy-handed move could involve using emergency powers that are normally reserved for major crises like natural disasters or war-time shortages to force grid operators to buy power from flailing plants.
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In 2016, the DEA proposed using its emergency powers to declare kratom a Schedule I drug: illegal, unsafe, with a high potential for abuse, and no accepted medical use in the United States.
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A coalition of 16 US states, including California and New York, have challenged President Trump in court over his plan to use emergency powers to spend billions of dollars on his border wall.
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But Mr. Rajoy's emergency powers range from the suspension of Catalonia's politicians and its regional Parliament to the suspension of the Catalan autonomous police, as well as the Catalan television and radio broadcaster.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is now pushing for legislation that would give him sweeping emergency powers to rule the country by decree for an extended period — prompting criticism from human rights officials.
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According to Goitein, there's no single law giving the federal government authority to lock down the country -- but there are secret documents that have never been publicly released giving the President emergency powers.
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" On Wednesday, Trump invoked the decades-old Defense Production Act to spur production of medical supplies but said he would use the emergency powers only "in a worst-case scenario in the future.
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COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka on Saturday extended a law granting security forces emergency powers into third month following the Easter Day bomb attacks on hotels and churches that killed more than 250 people.
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Israel, for instance, has just approved emergency powers to track location data of infected individuals and ensure they are adhering to quarantines as well as alerting people they have come into contact with.
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"I think we have to be on the lookout for 'scope creep' — contexts where we demand emergency powers that risk privacy and then fail to walk back after the emergency passes," she said.
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Pro-democracy activists plan a rally on Monday evening, the first with government permission since the introduction of colonial-era emergency powers, which sparked some of the worst violence since the unrest started.
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The GOP defections were one less than the 13 Republicans who voted with Democrats on the same measure in February, when Congress first attempted to block Trump's largely unprecedented use of emergency powers.
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A coalition of states, including California and New York, challenged President Trump in court on Monday over his plan to use emergency powers to pay for a wall on the border with Mexico.
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Hong Kong (CNN)Hong Kong woke to a city transformed Saturday, after protesters went on a rampage across the territory in reaction to the government's use of emergency powers to ban masks at demonstrations.
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The president could turn his nose up at whatever the Democrats offer and make good on his threat either to shut down the government again or invoke emergency powers to get the wall built.
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Over the years, Congress has delegated a host of powers to the president if he or she declares a national emergency, although the constitutionality of those emergency powers remains subject to vigorous debate. Rep.
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COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka on Monday extended a law granting security forces emergency powers for a fourth month following the Easter Day bomb attacks on hotels and churches that killed more than 250 people.
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On March 28503, FirstEnergy petitioned the Energy Department to use its emergency powers to arrange special contracts for its coal and nuclear power plants and others in the Mid-Atlantic reegion's competitive electricity markets.
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Miller was unable to cite another example of a president using emergency powers to secure funding after Congress had denied money through the appropriations process after anchor Chris Wallace pressed him for one repeatedly.
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Graham has been among the most outspoken lawmakers in advocating for Trump to use his emergency powers to construct a wall, though he has consistently said Congress should try to broker a deal first.
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On climate change:Steyer is pledging to declare climate change a national emergency on his first day in office, which differs from other candidates' plans as it relies on the emergency powers of the presidency.
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So President Harry Truman invoked his emergency powers to seize private steel mills to force steelworkers back, blatantly defying specific provisions in the Taft-Hartley Act — a largely anti-union labor law from 1947.
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An article on Sunday about President Trump's hesitance to use emergency powers to compel the production of medical gear misidentified the type of masks in heavy use in the New York-Presbyterian hospital system.
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In domestic policy, Mr. Trump has pushed the limits of emergency powers laws to claim a right to spend more taxpayer money on a border wall with Mexico than Congress was willing to appropriate.
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Dem amendments: The committee also rejected two Democratic amendments to the $70.7 billion bill that would strip out the wall money and block Trump from using emergency powers to reprogram funds from other accounts.
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Elizabeth Quat, a lawmaker for a pro-Beijing political party, told a news conference the looming ban on face masks under a law giving police broad emergency powers was aimed at stopping "illegal assemblies".
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Violent protests erupted across the Asian financial center on Friday hours after its embattled leader Carrie Lam invoked colonial-era emergency powers, last used more than 50 years ago, to curb months of unrest.
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Chief Executive Carrie Lam has refused to rule out invoking broad emergency powers, and Reuters reported this week that Beijing had quashed Lam's proposal to concede to some of the protest movement's five demands.
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Immediately after a declaration of independence by separatist lawmakers in the Catalan parliament, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of Spain invoked emergency powers, removed Mr. Puigdemont and his government, and called for elections on Dec.
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WASHINGTON — A coalition of 16 states, including California and New York, on Monday challenged President Trump in court over his plan to use emergency powers to spend billions of dollars on his border wall.
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Another separatist party, the far-left Popular Unity Candidacy, is also competing even while denouncing the vote as illegitimate: It claims Mr. Rajoy abused his emergency powers by calling a new election in Catalonia.
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His Administration has gone to extreme lengths to boost the sector, from opening up unprecedented amounts of public land to mining to trying to use emergency powers to bail out money-losing coal plants.
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Fox Business host Lou Dobbs said Thursday that President Trump should use his national emergency powers to "simply sweep aside the recalcitrant left in this country" as the partial government moves closer to Day 21.
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The emergency powers were granted to Ukrainian authorities by the country's parliament in response to an escalating conflict which Russia, which reached a climax in a short-lived naval battle in the Sea of Azov.
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Lawmakers could also end the national emergency declaration underpinning the tariffs with a joint resolution of disapproval, as they attempted earlier this year when Trump used national emergency powers to seize funding for border security.
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Members of both parties fear that Mr Trump will reach not for Mr Schumer's solution but a more drastic one: invoking emergency powers to circumvent Congress and build a wall using previously authorised military funds.
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The Pentagon is deploying an extra 1,500 troops to bases in Qatar, Bahrain and Iraq, and Mr Trump is invoking emergency powers to override congressional objections and sell weapons to Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
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The demand is more than six times what Congress allocated for border projects in each of the past two fiscal years, and 6 percent more than Trump has corralled by invoking emergency powers this year.
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Although Trudeau's Liberal government could invoke emergency powers to ensure the project goes ahead, that would most likely anger voters in British Columbia and cost the Liberals support in a federal election in October 2019.
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The arrests took place a week after France introduced tougher national security laws to permanently replace emergency powers given to police and intelligence services following deadly attacks by Islamist militants on Paris two years ago.
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The Monmouth University poll found that 64 percent of Americans would disapprove of Trump using emergency powers to direct military funds to build a border wall, while 34 percent said they would support the move.
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"Do you know you can't wear masks at a rally?" a police commander said to a man in black, citing a ban on face masks that was enacted last month under an emergency powers law.
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FOCUS ON POLICE Hong Kong's embattled leader Carrie Lam last month invoked colonial era emergency powers for the first time in more than 50 years, banning face masks in a move to quell the protests.
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McConnell reportedly told Trump that the Senate may pass a resolution disapproving of his use of emergency powers, potentially forcing the president to issue a veto — his first ever — in defiance of his own party.
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But you put a price on carbon, that has to be either a congressional statute or I think it's such a natural national emergency that this might be the rare proper exercise of emergency powers.
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Trump also threatened to use emergency powers to build the wall, a move that would inflame tensions with Congress, where Democrats have taken control of the House, and raise legal questions about his executive authority.
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Graham has repeatedly urged Trump to consider using his emergency powers to bypass Congress and build the wall, but the president reiterated that he is not interested in taking that step for the time being.
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Why it matters: Trump's remarks in West Virginia lacked detail, but nonetheless show that the controversial request for DOE to make sweeping use of its emergency powers has landed on the White House's radar screen.
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Norway has invoked emergency powers to close a wide range of public and private institutions, including schools, to combat the spread of coronavirus, while the central bank has cut rates and offered liquidity to banks.
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Washington (CNN)The Justice Department on Sunday defended its request to Congress for certain "emergency powers" amid the coronavirus pandemic after lawmakers and legal advocates said that some of the proposals infringed on civil rights.
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Speaking to reporters this week, the city's leader Carrie Lam appeared to leave open the possibility of using emergency powers to tackle the increasingly violent protests, after the move was suggested by pro-Beijing media.
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Hungary's government is considering a national lockdown to combat the virus, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told lawmakers on Monday as his cabinet sought to secure emergency powers it says are needed to tackle the outbreak.
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White House aides are in the midst of a pressure campaign pushing GOP lawmakers not to support a resolution set to rebuke the president for invoking his national emergency powers to build his border wall.
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But, in an interview here, Ms. Pugh suggested the tense political climate had turned her city's statues into a security threat and she said that her emergency powers allowed her to have them removed immediately.
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Trump has indicated he will use his emergency powers to declare a national emergency to construct a wall along the southern border if Congress does not come to an agreement over the next few weeks.
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We should not fear a coup or seizure of authoritarian emergency powers, but a slow hollowing-out of our legal system to the point where the people no longer have meaningful control over their leaders.
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Days after the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reported a "vaping crisis among youth," created by manufacturers luring young people into addiction to their potentially harmful products, Ms. Whitmer invoked her emergency powers.
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An 18-year-old student and a 38-year-old woman were the first to be prosecuted under the ban, which was instituted by Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Friday using emergency powers.
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Among the most contentious issues are the $5 billion President Trump requested to build his proposed border wall, plus another $3.6 billion to backfill military construction accounts he redirected toward the wall under emergency powers.
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The government could skip the requirement to identify pre-existing authorization for a wall if it invoked a different emergency-powers law for the funds, but that route would raise other problems, Ms. Goitein said.
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The other check against abuse has been self-restraint: Presidents have self-regulated and not invoked emergency powers to achieve policy goals Congress had rejected — or claimed that a qualifying crisis existed in disputed circumstances.
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Details: The lawsuit argues that the president doesn't have the power to divert federal funds to build the wall because Congress controls spending, setting up a constitutional clash over the scope of presidential emergency powers.
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As a matter of legal reality, the proposal is likely to be bogged down in a court challenge, leaving any actual construction work based on emergency powers spending an uncertain and, at best, distant prospect.
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Here's how Browning summarizes the history: Paul von Hindenburg, elected president of Germany in 1925, was endowed by the Weimar Constitution with various emergency powers to defend German democracy should it be in dire peril.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The French parliament will be asked to extend by several months emergency powers introduced in 2015 to counter the threat of terrorist attacks, President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday after talks with security chiefs.
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Hong Kong has been rocked by violent clashes and the city has been partially paralyzed since the Friday evening decision by the government to use its emergency powers to ban people from wearing masks at demonstrations.
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The National Thawheedh Jamaath (NTJ) and Jamathei Millathu Ibrahim were banned under his emergency powers, President Maithripala Sirisena said in a statement, nearly a week after the Easter Sunday attacks that killed more than 23 people.
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The union has so far targeted drilling operations, while the output of oil and gas has been allowed to continue, making it less likely that the government will apply emergency powers to intervene in the strike.
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If they fail to do so, or if what they agree does not satisfy his demands, Mr Trump said he would either shut down the government again, or else invoke emergency powers to get his way.
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Looking to these recent examples suggests that the US Constitution may be good at checking coups or the anti-democratic deployment of emergency powers, but it isn't well-suited to stall the slow decay of democracy.
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Mr. Abe and the Liberal Democrats previously proposed revisions to that clause to allow for a more active military, along with other amendments that could limit free speech and expand emergency powers for the prime minister.
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If implemented, the administration's proposal would bolster Trump's energy industry allies like Robert Murray, the chairman and CEO of coal miner Murray Energy, who asked Perry to invoke emergency powers to keep coal plants from shuttering.
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LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambian President Edgar Lungu may revoke emergency powers before they expire in 90 days if there is an end to the "acts of sabotage" they were meant to quell, his spokesman said on Wednesday.
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More importantly, while seemingly upholding the letter of the constitution — after all, Article 48 provided a legal basis for his actions — extensive reliance on emergency powers undermined the commitment of German citizens to their constitutional order.
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There is also a separate discussion about Treasury using emergency powers to restrict Chinese investments in U.S. companies, which could result in reciprocal action that would make it harder for U.S. firms to invest in China.
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He said then that his decision about when or if to declare a country-wide state of emergency or a more complete lockdown would be based on science, and that emergency powers were not yet needed.
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Mr. Dabengwa was also charged with seeking to maintain close ties to the K.G.B. When he and General Masuku were acquitted, they were immediately rearrested under emergency powers dating to the era of white minority rule.
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On Friday, Japan's parliament approved a bill giving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe emergency powers that will let him close schools, halt large gatherings and requisition medical supplies as the country tries to slow the virus outbreak.
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Emergency powers Under the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, the chief executive has the power to bypass the city's legislature to "make any regulations whatsoever which (they) may consider desirable in the public interest" for an indefinite period.
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The War Powers Act offers, on paper at least, a sensible balance for the president's need to exercise emergency powers in times of threat, and the Congress' constitutional responsibility to make the final decisions about war.
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The latest crack in Republican support for Trump's wall -- or, at least, his decision to use his national emergency powers to funnel previously allocated funds to build the border barrier -- came Monday, when North Carolina Sen.
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The Department of Justice is reportedly seeking new emergency powers due to the coronavirus outbreak sweeping across the US.The DOJ wants chief judges to be able to detain people indefinitely without trial during emergencies, Politico reported.
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WASHINGTON — The White House's announcement Thursday that President Trump would claim emergency powers to build his border wall without congressional approval was a way out of the political crisis he created over shutting down the government.
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COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka said on Monday it was invoking emergency powers in the aftermath of devastating bomb attacks on hotels and churches, blamed on militants with foreign links, which killed 290 people and wounded nearly 500.
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On Tuesday, officials from the White House counsel's office and the Justice Department met with members during the GOP Senate lunch to discuss the legal reasoning behind Trump's use of national emergency powers to wield the tariffs.
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A statement by the Elysee palace said Macron told his government to devise additional measures for countering the security threats beyond the emergency powers and produce a draft bill to put to parliament in the coming weeks.
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Sri Lanka said on Monday it was invoking emergency powers in the aftermath of devastating bomb attacks on hotels and churches, blamed on militants with foreign links, in which 290 people were killed and nearly 500 wounded.
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"Pumped for the next Democratic president to use 'emergency powers,'" Jon Favreau, a former Obama speechwriter and Crooked Media co-founder joked on Twitter on Thursday, envisioning a future just like the ones Republicans are scared of.
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Armed with emergency powers, in control of nearly all media outlets and state institutions, and enduringly popular with conservative voters, Mr Erdogan is expected to win easily in a contest that no one expects to be fair.
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As we know, the bumbling Gungan created by George Lucas first appears in The Phantom Menace as comic relief, then has a hand in creating the Empire as an advocate of emergency powers for the duplicitous Palpatine.
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The federal picture: Third Way does not support FirstEnergy's recent bid for sweeping use of the Energy Department's emergency powers to keep coal-fired and nuclear plants in the PJM Interconnection region operating with guaranteed cost recovery.
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If Catalan separatists were to declare independence unilaterally, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy would most likely use emergency powers to take full administrative control of Catalonia, which could involve replacing the Catalan police force with Spanish police officers.
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On Saturday, a day after the Spanish Senate voted to give Mr. Rajoy emergency powers under Article 155 of Spain's Constitution to end the secessionism drive, the full force of the national government's actions went into effect.
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Mr. Trump has said he will unilaterally impose tariffs on imports of most Mexican goods, from auto parts to food, using one of the laws that creates emergency powers, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 19703.
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" Michelle Mello, a professor of law and medicine at Stanford University, said that as long as federal and state governments can satisfy stringent judicial scrutiny, they "have broad emergency powers to do pretty much whatever is necessary.
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Dalio, founder of the world's largest hedge fund, said in a lengthy LinkedIn post President Donald Trump could use special emergency powers like the freezing of Japanese assets and embargoing of oil to Japan in the 1940s.
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Hong Kong shares fell 1% as the territory's government invoked colonial-era emergency powers for the first time in more than 50 years in a dramatic move intended to quell escalating violence in the Chinese-ruled city.
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At the weekly Republican Senate lunch held in the Capitol a few hours before Mr. Trump's speech, Senator John Thune of South Dakota, the majority whip, was asked about the likelihood of the president invoking emergency powers.
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Speaking to reporters at the G7 summit in Biarritz, France Sunday, Trump claimed that he could use emergency powers to force private companies to relocate out of China, but said he has no current plans to do so.
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Hong Kong (CNN)Hong Kong's leader invoked rarely-used emergency powers to ban people from wearing face masks during public assemblies, a move that enraged thousands of protesters who marched through streets across the territory on Friday night.
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While the executive branch's emergency powers are broad, and while the courts tend to defer to the executive on national security matters, legal experts reckon that the plan has a slim chance of success in the long-term.
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The strongman enjoys unwavering support from his religious base, indirect control over practically all big news outlets, and emergency powers that allow him to rule by decree, lock up some critics and make others think twice before speaking.
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Mulvaney also insisted that the president's use of national emergency powers, codified in a 250 bill passed by Congress, did not create a precedent future presidents could use to pay for their own policy priorities without congressional appropriations.
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A number of Republicans have also voiced concerns about the use of emergency powers, warning it could set a poor precedent, but it's unclear how many GOP critics of the president's action would vote for the Democrats' measure.
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Vice President Pence discussed a potential offer with GOP senators on Tuesday of Trump signing legislation to curb his national emergency powers if senators defeat the resolution of disapproval to spare him the first veto of his presidency.
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"The reported proposal would be a misapplication of emergency powers, there's certainly no credible justification to force American taxpayers to bail out uneconomic power plants," said Amy Farrell, head of government affairs at the American Wind Energy Association.
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In view of the violence on the streets of Barcelona and other Catalan cities, right-wing parties have raised the pressure on Mr. Sánchez to use his executive emergency powers to restore law and order in the region.
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Leyla Larbi, a prominent French-Algerian activist and legal expert, fears the permanent emergency powers will also result in the proliferation and normalization of racist speech in media, political affairs, and public discourse, alongside anti-Muslim hate crimes.
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Over the past month, acting under emergency powers that allow the state to bypass Parliament and rule by decree, the Turkish government has extended the crackdown to the Kurds, who have no known link to the coup attempt.
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The Department of Health and Human Services is considering invoking Korean War-era emergency powers to mass produce face masks and other medical equipment to deal with a potential catastrophe while Trump makes misleading comparisons to seasonal flu.
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However, in order to take effect, governors must first use their emergency powers to allow those doctors permission to practice in their states, said Krista Drobac, executive director of the Alliance for Connected Care, a telehealth industry group.
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Because it takes two-thirds of both chambers to override a veto, the ruling significantly eroded the check and balance against abuse that lawmakers had intended to be part of their delegation of standby emergency powers to presidents.
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It also leaves the number of detention beds for Immigration and Customs Enforcement flat, and, in a win for the White House, imposes no restrictions on Trump's use of emergency powers to reprogram defense funds toward his wall.
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"Presidents have authority to defend the nation," Mulvaney said on CNN's "State of the Union" when asked whether Trump should use emergency powers to get the money he's seeking to build physical barriers along the border with Mexico.
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By initiating a state of national emergency in the US, Trump gains access to emergency powers contained in 123 statutory provisions, according to a report put out by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law.
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After being rebuffed by the U.S. Congress in his request for $5.7 billion to help build the wall that was a signature 2016 campaign promise, Trump on Friday invoked emergency powers given to the president under a 1976 law.
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It's not clear exactly how he'd follow through on his threat, though the Washington Post reported last year that he planned to deny asylum to migrants at the border using proposed emergency powers similar to the 2017 travel ban.
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More often, the record shows a fresh crop of judges nominated by Trump has stepped in for the president, either to stay injunctions or deny standing to those challenging his unprecedented use of emergency powers to get around Congress.
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Members of Republican leadership on Capitol Hill appeared skeptical that even getting a deal to rein in Trump's emergency powers could pave the way for defeating the resolution of disapproval, suggesting instead it would just minimize additional GOP defections.
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When asked if he thinks the GOP conference would back a national emergency declaration, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise told reporters Thursday that Republicans would like to see the border wall issue resolved legislatively rather than through emergency powers.
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The president, however, is not even trying to hide the fact he'd like to have the power to summarily deport migrants and asylum seekers, and has already demonstrated a willingness to try and seize emergency powers toward that end.
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TOKYO, March 13 (Reuters) - Japan's parliament on Friday approved a bill giving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe emergency powers that will let him close schools, halt large gatherings and requisition medical supplies as Japan tries to slow the coronavirus outbreak.
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SAN SALVADOR, March 13 (Reuters) - El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele on Friday asked Congress to decree emergency powers nationwide, including the suspension of some rights to free speech and free association, in an escalation of measures to contain coronavirus.
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Recent presidents have exercised emergency powers on plenty of other occasions — there are 31 national emergencies still in effect — but rarely have they taken such steps for what many observers say essentially amounts to ending a political policy disagreement.
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But the state's overwhelmingly Republican legislature is racing this week to set aside that new law by using its emergency powers, prompting cries of protest from voters and critics, who are calling the hasty efforts an antidemocratic power grab.
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He also revealed some had called for the government to invoke the emergency powers to allow police to detain those arrested for up to 90 hours, from the current 48 hours, on top of enacting an anti-mask law.
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Second, unlike Trump's use of emergency powers to build his border wall, the president's goal in this case had less to do with some shared goal for his party — such as slowing immigration — and more his political self-interest.
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None of the times emergency powers have been invoked since 1976, the year Congress enacted the National Emergencies Act, involved a president making an end run around lawmakers to spend money on a project they had decided against funding.
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The president will have the final word on any deal, and he has already vowed to shut down the government again, or invoke his emergency powers to build a wall, if Congress does not offer a solution he likes.
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Other countries (including France and Turkey) have constitutional provisions for the executive branch to assume emergency powers after a crisis; the US Constitution doesn't have that, but the post-9/11 political environment gave the Bush administration similar cover.
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As Trump is expected to use executive emergency powers to implement the duties, Congress could try to vote to block them — as lawmakers did earlier this year when Trump declared a national emergency to secure money for his proposed border wall.
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The demand, which drew swift criticism from Democrats, is more than six times what Congress allocated for border projects in each of the past two fiscal years, and 6 percent more than Trump has corralled by invoking emergency powers this year.
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In the meantime, the Senate Appropriations Committee has yet to release the spending bill dealing with military construction and veterans affairs, which is stuck over Democratic insistence against backfilling project funds that Trump redirected toward building the wall under emergency powers.
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"Activists employed manual safety valves, calling on President Obama to use emergency powers to keep the pipelines closed and mobilize for the extraordinary shift away from fossil fuels now required to avert catastrophe," Climate Direct Action said in a statement.
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"This was a painful decision," the governor said in a televised speech on Sunday, in which he struck a nationalistic tone and said he had to invoke his emergency powers under Puerto Rican law because help from Washington was not forthcoming.
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No matter where one stands on questions of border security, Trump's use of emergency powers is not triggered by an event that justifies their presence in a constitutional order: a sudden crisis with potentially disastrous consequences that requires swift action.
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MCALLEN, Texas/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Flanked by border agents who are going without paychecks during a government shutdown, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday to use emergency powers to bypass Congress to pay for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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This margin of 35 points (66% - 563%) against the use of emergency powers is significantly wider than the 24-point margin (53% - 29%) by which the same respondents in this poll said they blamed Republicans over Democrats for the shutdown.
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The rapid series of interventions continued Tuesday, when the central bank invoked emergency powers to launch a new program that will seek to unfreeze a $1 trillion market that keeps America's economy moving, my CNN Business colleague Matt Egan reports.
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"France has a responsibility to ensure public safety and try to prevent further attacks, but the police have used their new emergency powers in abusive, discriminatory, and unjustified ways," said Izza Leghtas, Western Europe researcher at HRW, in the report.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump ended a losing streak in court clashes with the House on Monday, as a federal judge rejected the Democrat-controlled chamber's lawsuit seeking to stop him from using emergency powers to build a wall along the southwestern border.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump does not plan to invoke emergency powers over what he calls a crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border during a televised speech later on Tuesday, the Washington Post reported, citing an unnamed senior White House official.
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Congress could try setting a new election timeline, local election boards could be unable to operate polling sites, and the president could sow doubt in the election's legitimacy or push executive emergency powers to the legal brink to disrupt the vote.
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Central banks and governments have unleashed a tsunami of interest rate cuts, loan guarantees and new spending, tapping emergency powers to reassure investors, cushion the shock to companies and workers and preserve the foundations of a functioning economy for the future.
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The pall thickened after the Hong Kong leadership invoked emergency powers to ban the wearing of face masks during street rallies, a move that prompted fresh unrest and fury among those already angered by a slow erosion of civil liberties.
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And while some Democratic hopefuls in the 2020 presidential race have embraced the idea of using emergency powers to fight climate change, the risk we take by leaving Congress powerless to stop abuses is far greater than any likely benefit.
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HONG Kong, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Hong Kong's embattled leader Carrie Lam on Friday invoked colonial-era emergency powers for the first time in more than 50 years in a dramatic move intended to quell escalating violence in the Chinese-ruled city.
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Hong Kong's embattled leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday her administration had no plans to use colonial-era emergency powers to introduce new laws, after a long weekend of violent protests saw widespread defiance of a ban on face masks.
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Trump rejected entreaties from several Senate Republicans to agree to a compromise that would curtail his national emergency powers and instead framed the vote not as a matter of constitutional concerns, but rather as a litmus test on border security.
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While Ms. Goitein agreed that "there is a nonfrivolous legal case to be made" that emergency-powers laws might empower Mr. Trump to spend military funds on a wall, she also pointed to counterarguments any lawsuit would have to contend with.
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Presidents have invoked emergency-powers statutes nearly five dozen times since Congress enacted the National Emergencies Act of 1976, but never before has one been used to make an end-run around Congress after it rejected funding for a particular policy.
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Emergency powers have the potential to expand state-led discrimination dramatically, whether it is sending security forces into sanctuary cities, taking control of electronic communications systems, or expanding the revocations of citizenship already in process apart from the emergency declaration.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Friday he could use emergency powers to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border without Congress' approval, threatening to bypass Democratic lawmakers emboldened by their recent takeover of the House of Representatives.
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Amash was also the only Republican to cosponsor the House Democratic resolution earlier this year disapproving of Trump's use of emergency powers to seize funds from the Defense Department for the construction of a border wall between the United States and Mexico.
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Per Ars, the DOE is generally reluctant to "use emergency powers" such as 202(c) "to solve an economic situation," though Secretary of Energy Rick Perry has hinted he may claim that not enough coal and nuclear plants constitutes a national security issue.
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He was dubious about Algerian independence, but after an attempted coup by generals determined to cling on to the north African territory, he granted himself emergency powers and ceded it—a decision for which a swathe of the nationalist right never forgave him.
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U.S. power company FirstEnergy Corp had urged the federal government last month to evoke little-used emergency powers to help it keep several struggling nuclear and coal-fired power plants open, a move critics blasted as an attempt at a corporate bailout.
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's threat to use emergency powers to fund a border wall would open the door to a future Democratic president using the same authority to declare a national emergency on climate change, members of Congress in both parties say.
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A coalition of 16 Democratic attorneys general, led by Xavier Becerra in California, filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging the constitutionality of President Trump's move last week to invoke emergency powers to access more money to build wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Instead, a world coalition was spurned, and many of the policies pursued in the first term of President George W. Bush were justified on the basis of his emergency powers as commander in chief, not developed in collaboration with Congress or our allies.
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The new Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade said Duterte would seek emergency powers from Congress for two years to tackle Manila's notorious traffic gridlock, citing an estimated 2.4 billion pesos of lost business each day due to street snarl-ups in the Philippines.
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In fact, there is a direct historical connection between the state of emergency powers and French colonialism: The legislation authorizing state of emergency orders was created in April 230 to halt the Algerian insurrection at the height of the country's war for independence.
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Ibrahim Bechrouri, a spokesman for the Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF), the country's leading Muslim civil rights organization, said the emergency powers Macron codified into law are clearly reminiscent of repressive policies used against the indigenous populations of former French colonies.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) warned President Trump during a face-to-face meeting at the White House that using emergency powers to get funding for his border wall "may trigger political blowback and divide the GOP," the Washington Post reports.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong police shot and wounded a teenage boy on Friday, as violent protests erupted across the Chinese-ruled city hours after its embattled leader Carrie Lam invoked colonial-era emergency powers last used more than 50 years ago.
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Frustrated by increasing polarization and persistent log-jams in parliament, Paul von Hindenburg, president of the Weimar Republic — that short-lived German experiment in democracy born 85033 years ago — increasingly resorted to the Weimar constitution emergency powers to circumvent the legislative process.
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Without knowing anything about which specific emergency powers Trump might plan to use, no litigator could start preparing for a lawsuit now — and even if Trump declared an emergency tomorrow, it might take days or weeks for a lawsuit to get filed.
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The Department of Energy is considering a plan that would force grid operators to buy electricity from struggling coal plants (as well as nuclear plants) in order to keep them afloat, using emergency powers normally reserved for exceptional crises like natural disasters.
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Mr. Trump threatened to invoke emergency powers created in 1977 to impose tariffs on Mexico, making him the first president to aim at a close ally a law traditionally used to impose economic sanctions on foreign adversaries for terrorism and other wrongdoing.
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The administration is also exploring with the Federal Reserve how it can deploy the central bank's emergency powers to lend to nonfinancial firms, though the central bank's authorities were curtailed in the political backlash to the 2008 bailout of insurer American International Group.
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BUDAPEST, March 23 (Reuters) - Hungary's government is weighing the option of a national lockdown to combat the coronavirus, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told lawmakers on Monday as his cabinet sought to raise emergency powers it says are needed to tackle the outbreak.
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MANILA, March 23 (Reuters) - Southeast Asian countries considered more emergency powers on Monday to tackle the threat of the coronavirus as Singapore Airlines said it was grounding almost all of fleet in the face of the "greatest challenge" it has ever faced.
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Central banks and governments are now unleashing a tsunami of interest rate cuts, loan guarantees and new spending, tapping emergency powers to reassure investors, cushion the shock to companies and workers and preserve the foundations of a functioning economy for the future.
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The decision by Hong Kong's leader, Carrie Lam, on Friday to invoke emergency powers to ban the use of face masks at protests has only further angered the protesters, who see it as the latest example of eroding freedoms in the semiautonomous territory.
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The federal government can use its emergency powers to negotiate a much lower cost of naloxone, and settlement funds can further supplement to ensure that no first responder has to ration or family member has to go without this life-saving antidote.
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In the wake of the clashes, Chinese news outlets run by the Communist Party urged the Hong Kong government to take tough steps against the protesters and cited experts urging Carrie Lam, the chief executive of the city, to invoke emergency powers.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong police said on Tuesday 77 people had been arrested for violating an anti-mask law enacted at the weekend under sweeping emergency powers invoked by the city's leader to try to quell often violent anti-government street protests.
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House Democrats also filed a lawsuit challenging Trump's declaration of a national emergency on the southern border, claiming that he could not invoke his emergency powers simply to circumvent Congress' refusal to fully fund his border wall in its 2019 budget deal.
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Hindenburg began using his emergency powers in 1930, appointing a sequence of chancellors who ruled by decree rather than through parliamentary majorities, which had become increasingly impossible to obtain as a result of the Great Depression and the hyperpolarization of German politics.
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If the House passes the resolution, the Senate would be forced to vote on it — meaning Republicans, many of whom have voiced frustration at Trump's decision, would have to go on the record to express whether they support the president's use of emergency powers.
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While there had been undue limitations in the Turkish Constitution even before the events of July, the freedoms of assembly and speech, for example, were even further restricted under the extraordinary state-of-emergency powers -- particularly as a result of measures introduced by provincial governors.
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That is more than six times what Congress gave him for border projects in each of the past two fiscal years, and 6 percent more than the president has corralled by invoking emergency powers this year after he failed to get the money he wanted.
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That figure is more than six times what Congress gave Trump for border projects in each of the past two fiscal years, and 6 percent more than he has corralled by invoking emergency powers this year after he failed to get the money he wanted.
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Chris Edelson, a government professor at American University and author of "Emergency Presidential Power: From the Drafting of the Constitution to the War on Terror," told The New York Times that no president has ever invoked emergency powers to obtain funding that Congress denied.
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Pruitt said he was not aware of the size of the salary increases — which amounted to tens of thousands of dollars — or that the EPA had used emergency powers under the Clean Air Act to circumvent the White House's refusal to grant the raises. Rep.
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In nearly half of the 12 annual appropriations bills House Democrats have ushered through committee, they have included specific language to block wall-related emergency powers, limit the use of flexible funds and oppose refilling accounts that could be used to build the barrier.
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He has to declare which of the 100-plus emergency powers given to the president he's invoking — not just because that's how the law works, but because he has to identify which pools of emergency money he wants to raid to pay for the wall.
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Even if the separatist parties bury their recent disagreements to form a new coalition government in January, Mr. Rajoy could reapply his emergency powers and extend direct rule over Catalonia, if he judges that the new Catalan administration is set to violate the Constitution.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Hong Kong is a long way from having to declare emergency powers or to ask the Chinese military to intervene, a senior official with China's parliament and pro-Beijing Hong Kong politician told Reuters, as months of protests show no sign of abating.
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The city's chief executive Carrie Lam invoked emergency powers on Friday that "aimed to deter people from joining these unlawful assembly and put an end to the violence," a pro-establishment Hong Kong legislator, who approved of the new law, told CNBC on Monday.
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HONG KONG, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Hong Kong police said on Tuesday 77 people had been arrested for violating an anti-mask law enacted at the weekend under sweeping emergency powers invoked by the city's leader to try to quell often violent anti-government street protests.
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In October, when Turkey's Parliament extended for another three months the emergency powers granted to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after the coup, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and other groups issued a statement criticizing Europe and the United States for not responding more forcefully.
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After the failed coup, he used his enhanced emergency powers to crack down on Kurdish political leaders, intellectuals and others who voiced support for the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or P.K.K., which is considered a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.
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House Democrats introduced a resolution on Tuesday to block President Donald Trump's effort to build a wall on the US southern border through his emergency powers, setting up votes in Congress to rebuke the President's proclamation, even though Trump has promised to veto the measure.
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President Trump's use of emergency powers to reprogram funds from other departments including Defense for his border wall incensed Democrats, who vowed not to backfill Military Construction projects he effectively defunded and defense accounts he drew down from when transferring the cash toward the wall.
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The few things House Democrats and Senate Republicans have agreed on: disaster relief aid, reopening the government after the shutdown, the resolution to end US involvement in the Yemen war, a bill to protect public lands, and a resolution disapproving of Trump's use of emergency powers.
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The raft of moribund Cold War–era laws that give the president emergency powers in certain circumstances, coupled with Trump's extraordinarily broad definition of when they can be invoked, and the Supreme Court's supine deference to those interpretations, has been a disastrous recipe for American governance.
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While not the administration's preferred plan, the use of emergency powers to fund the wall "provides a way out" amid a series of contentious meetings and disagreements among Department of Homeland Security officials and Democratic lawmakers over basic facts related to border security, the official said.
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The emergency declaration would allow the president to move funds from other agencies to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to build a border wall, a prospect that's made Republican senators wonder whether the emergency powers passed in the 70s are "too broad," according to McConnell.
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FirstEnergy has sought government relief by calling on U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry to use the emergency powers to order PJM Interconnection, the regional power grid operator, to negotiate a contract that would compensate owners of coal and nuclear plants for providing reliable power and jobs.
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Mr. Trump's coronavirus emergency declaration, in contrast to his Mexico border wall declaration, fit the purpose of emergency powers laws, said Elizabeth Goitein, a co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law.
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A coalition of 20 states, including California and New York, sued last month over Mr. Trump's use of emergency powers, arguing that the president does not have the authority to divert funds for building a wall along the Mexican border because it is Congress that controls spending.
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Brazil's central bank also took a step closer to all-out "quantitative easing," or QE, analysts said, with the bank proposing a draft constitutional amendment to grant it emergency powers to buy government bonds and other assets to help stabilize markets and shore up the economy.
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On the same day as the car protest in New Jersey, Never Again Action organized a projection on the side of the JFK Federal Building in Boston demanding Governor Charlie Baker use his emergency powers to release ICE detainees in order to save them from the coronavirus.
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In the run-up to the national election, Mr. Sánchez is facing increasing pressure from opposition, center-right parties to use his emergency powers to restore order in Catalonia, possibly even imposing another period of direct rule from Madrid over Catalonia as happened in late 2017.
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FirstEnergy in March asked Energy Secretary Rick Perry to evoke emergency powers to help several struggling nuclear and coal plants remain open, including units owned by its FirstEnergy Solutions subsidiary, which sought bankruptcy protection just days after saying it would shut nuclear reactors in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
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He had the Department of Energy (DOE) instruct the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to bail out coal based on its supposed resiliency benefits, and when FERC wisely rejected that idea, he threatened to use DOE emergency powers to bail out coal plants on national-security grounds.
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WASHINGTON — As the budget standoff between President Trump and congressional Democrats grinds into the third week of a partial government shutdown, the White House has floated the idea that Mr. Trump might invoke emergency powers to build his proposed wall on the Mexican border without lawmakers' approval.
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But no matter what else happens, Mr. Trump's willingness to invoke emergency powers to circumvent Congress is likely to go down as an extraordinary violation of constitutional norms — setting a precedent that future presidents of both parties may emulate to unilaterally achieve their own policy goals.
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Emergency powers could be granted to ensure ports and airports work in a coordinated optimal way, while the Treasury will start preparations for a "No Deal Brexit Budget" that will bring in a range of options including cutting corporation tax to 12.5% and lowering business rates.
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As if to make up for the shortfall, the administration last month sidestepped Congress and invoked emergency powers to expedite $8 billion in weapons sales to Riyadh, the UAE and a number of other countries in the face of what the White House has called the escalating Iran threat.
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These executive actions would include, but are not limited to: Steyer: I will not hesitate to use the emergency powers of the presidency to protect the American public from the climate crisis, just as I would use those powers to protect our country from a hostile military invasion.
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Regarding the Turkish government's rapid move to extend its "state of emergency" powers for three months immediately in the wake of Sunday's victory, Harris contended that the win has actually put immense pressure on Erdogan to normalize affairs within the country and restore the economy as soon as possible.
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"I probably break with some Trump supporters on this — or a lot of Trump supporters on this in that I don't think the declaration is a good idea," she continued, adding that presidents typically invoke emergency powers to impose sanctions or declare imminent dangers like a public health crisis.
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FirstEnergy in March asked U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry to evoke emergency powers to help several struggling nuclear and coal plants remain open, including units owned by its FirstEnergy Solutions subsidiary, which sought bankruptcy protection just days after saying it would shut nuclear reactors in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
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The ban took force Saturday after Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announced that the government had used emergency powers under the Emergency Regulations Ordinance to activate a mask ban — the first time in over 50 years that the ordinance has been activated which gives Lam extreme executive power.
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Mike LeeMichael (Mike) Shumway LeeMcConnell, allies lean into Twitter, media 'war' Conservatives buck Trump over worries of 'socialist' drug pricing Criminal justice reform should extend to student financial aid MORE (R-Utah) that would have curtailed the president's emergency powers in exchange for GOP senators' votes against the resolution.
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Visa-free travel was further conditioned on Turkey modifying its antiterror legislation, but the attempted coup on July 15 led instead to even harsher tactics under extraordinary emergency powers that have seen some 40,000 people jailed and more than 100,000 fired from public sector jobs, including 15,000 on Tuesday.
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There have been a few things House Democrats and Senate Republicans have agreed on: disaster relief aid, reopening the government after the shutdown, the resolution to end US involvement in the Yemen war, a bill to protect public lands, and a resolution disapproving of Trump's use of emergency powers.
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Now, the administration is considering more drastic action: In one proposal discussed in a leaked internal memo, the Department of Energy would order grid operators to buy power from a designated list of coal and nuclear plants, using emergency powers normally reserved for short-term crises like hurricanes.
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In the wake of news that Trump is diverting $3.6 billion in military funds to build a border wall, Democrats are running short on possible legislative responses after a federal judge gave the Trump administration the go-ahead to use emergency powers to make use of the funding.
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Even as Mr. Rajoy faces criticism from the Socialists, he is under pressure from hard-liners within his own Popular Party, who want him to activate emergency powers to take full administrative control over Catalonia, rather than use piecemeal steps to stop Catalans from financing and organizing their referendum.
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But since then, progress on how to allocate the funds has hit several bumps, complicated by Trump's demand to include $5 billion in funding for the wall in the Homeland Security bill, and backfill $3.6 billion in military construction accounts he reprogrammed toward the wall using emergency powers.
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If they fail to reach an agreement, or come up with a plan that is not to Mr. Trump's liking, the president has threatened to either shut down the government again or invoke emergency powers to circumvent Congress in obtaining money for a wall along the southwestern border.
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"He has broad leeway to declare an emergency, frankly, whether one exists or not," Elizabeth Goitein, a co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, who recently wrote an in-depth explainer of presidential emergency powers in the Atlantic, recently told me.
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"He has broad leeway to declare an emergency, frankly, whether one exists or not," Elizabeth Goitein, a co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, who recently wrote an in-depth explainer of presidential emergency powers in the Atlantic, told me in January.
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"We are looking for alternatives, as I've said publicly, to the emergency route in order to make sure we build all the wall and build it more quickly than would occur under the emergency powers act," said Young, who is hoping to protect the Republican majority in the Senate next year.
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Less noticed in this surge of congressional body-rebuilding was the National Emergencies Act of 220006 that rescinded four existing national emergencies dating back to the depression, repealed seven statutes containing obsolete emergency powers, and gave Congress a role in reviewing and potentially terminating future national emergencies declared by a president.
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Lawmakers in both parties believe Trump exceeded his authority when he invoked his emergency powers to obtain money for the wall after Congress refused to grant his request for billions of dollars in funding, which had triggered a 35-day government shutdown that dealt a political blow to the GOP.
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Former Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh called on the Fed to invoke its emergency powers to create a new credit facility to ensure businesses and households have access to cash, a move that could benefit airlines, retailers and energy companies hit by the economic shutdown — not just banks and financial institutions.
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About a third of the country's cabinet are current or former members of the armed forces, and the military is a major player in many sectors of the economy, having been granted emergency powers to manage state-run activities in pharmaceuticals, food and basic goods production, logistics, and controlling imports.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday her administration had no plans to use emergency powers for the introduction of other laws and that the Chinese territory was equipped to handle the current situation on its own as the city braced for further demonstrations through the week.
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The precedent Mr. Trump would establish raises the risk of longer-term damage to the American constitutional system, undermining people's confidence in the country's democracy, said Elizabeth Goitein, who oversaw a recent study of presidential emergency powers for the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.
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The full court also said it would immediately take up a case that House Democrats brought against Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin challenging the administration's use of emergency powers and other extraordinary measures to spend more taxpayer funds on Mr. Trump's border wall with Mexico than Congress had been willing to appropriate.
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President Trump on Tuesday will speak to the nation in a primetime telecast that has been billed as addressing a "national security" crisis at the border, and on Monday, Vice President Mike Pence told reporters that the White House is actively exploring the use of emergency powers to build a border wall.
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It seems that Murray had several meetings with Trump and various advisers over the summer in which he made the following proposal: He wants Trump to use emergency powers under the Federal Power Act section 202(c) to impose a two-year moratorium on the closing of coal-fired power plants. Seriously.
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Cuomo, who has marshaled sweeping emergency powers for himself in the midst of the crisis at the expense of localities like New York City, sought to project command of the situation and stuck with a mostly measured tone, leaving it to de Blasio to sound the alarm about the federal government's perceived failures.
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He has set a deadline of June 10, saying he will use broad emergency powers to begin taxing all Mexican goods at 5 percent and to increase the tax to 25 percent by October if illegal crossings do not completely end — a feat that diplomats, politicians and immigration experts said is wildly unrealistic.
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Congressional Republicans have suggested that they might join Democrats in pushing back against President Trump's vow to use emergency powers to impose a sharp tax increase on Americans when they buy Mexican goods, unless and until the Mexican government does more to stop migrants from reaching and illegally crossing the American border.
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The letter comes at a time when Democrats have frequently criticized Mr. Barr for aligning himself with President Trump's attacks on the F.B.I.'s Russia investigation and for supplying legal defenses for aggressive White House moves, like invoking emergency powers to spend more on a border wall than Congress appropriated and defying subpoenas.
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If Trump uses emergency powers to fund a border wall, it's unclear which statute he will use to do this, Cristina Rodríguez, Leighton Homer Surbeck professor of law at Yale Law School, said, but it's quite possible it won't be the same one another president would turn to if they were trying to respond to climate change.
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Trump's budget asked for $20193 billion to build a wall on the southern border with Mexico, more than six times what Congress gave him for border projects in each of the past two fiscal years, and 6 percent more than he has corralled by invoking emergency powers this year after he failed to get the money he wanted.
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Will HurdWilliam Ballard HurdDemocrats keen to take on Cornyn despite formidable challenges Republicans offer support for Steve King challenger House Democrats target 2020 GOP incumbents in new ad MORE, the lone Republican to represent a border district in Texas, called an emergency declaration unnecessary, but did not say whether he would vote to blunt Trump's use of emergency powers.
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The company's chief executive signaled earlier this year that FirstEnergy Solutions was headed for bankruptcy protection.. The legal move came after FirstEnergy urged the federal government on Thursday to evoke little-used emergency powers to help it keep several struggling nuclear and coal-fired power plants open, a move critics described as an appeal for a corporate bailout.
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That part of Mr. Trump's plans relies not on his high-profile invocation of emergency powers, but on another component that has received less attention: using the Pentagon's separate authority to redirect some of its annual budget in order to beef up its counternarcotics programs, which in turn can be tapped for blocking smuggling along the border.
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The $23 trillion plan asks for $22011 billion to build a wall on the border with Mexico - more than six times what Congress gave Trump for border projects in each of the past two fiscal years, and 21 percent more than he has corralled by invoking emergency powers this year after he failed to get the money he wanted.
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Rather, American presidents and judges have inferred vague emergency powers into many of the Constitution's key clauses and phrases — such as "Commander in Chief," which is one basis for the president's power to respond to sudden attacks, or the president's power to "take Care" the laws are enforced, which has been used to justify expansive executive power under both Democrats and Republicans.
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Trump made a series of eleventh-hour pleas to Republicans to vote against the resolution of disapproval, ranging from being open to amending emergency powers in the future to warning they were siding with Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Mueller report fades from political conversation Five key players in Trump's trade battles MORE (D-Calif.).
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The two-day hearing for Mr. Barr, 68, will play out against the backdrop of swelling rule-of-law turmoil, from Mr. Trump's pressuring the Justice Department to curtail investigations into his associates and to open them into his opponents to his threat to invoke emergency powers to circumvent Congress on border-wall funds, to coming oversight fights with House Democrats.
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Ms. Goitein and other experts who have studied emergency-powers laws have said there are serious — if not dispositive — arguments that Mr. Trump's legal team can make that at least two such statutes could be used to erect border barriers by redirecting military construction funds that can be freed up, in a presidentially declared emergency, to build something Congress has not approved.
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Additional Reading: • Trump Plans National Emergency to Build Border Wall as Senate Passes Spending Bill • National Emergency Powers and Trump's Border Wall, Explained Andrew G. McCabe, former deputy director of the F.B.I., said officials at the Department of Justice considering getting cabinet officials to invoke the 25th Amendment against Mr. Trump after he ousted James Comey, the former F.B.I. chief, in 2017.
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The emergency powers -- which give the city's chief executive effective carte blanche to make new laws as necessary in the instance of a severe breakdown of public order -- have not been tested in court since Hong Kong's return to China in 1997 and could be found unconstitutional under the city's Basic Law, the de facto constitution, which guarantees rights such as public assembly and free expression.
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The emergency powers -- which give the city's Chief Executive effective carte blanche to make new laws as necessary in the instance of a severe breakdown of public order -- have not been tested in court since Hong Kong's return to China in 1997 and could be found unconstitutional under the city's Basic Law, the de facto constitution, which guarantees rights such as public assembly and free expression.
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The request was for documents the DOJ has written that discuss President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's ability to invoke national emergency powers to build his border wall.
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Trump made an eleventh hour plea to Republican senators, reiterating his pledge to veto the resolution and signaling he could be open to future changes to his emergency powers, and even accusing Republicans who voted "yes" of standing with House Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Mueller report fades from political conversation Five key players in Trump's trade battles MORE (D-Calif.).
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Should the president decide to go beyond that and explicitly attempt to invoke emergency powers, Democrats have already made clear any effort to do either of the above to finance and build a portion of the border wall would invite a legal challenge, but it's unclear what, exactly, the response would be until it becomes more clear which, if any, route the administration would choose.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellPelosi, Schumer press for gun screenings as Trump inches away The malware election: Returning to paper ballots only way to prevent hacking First House Republican backs bill banning assault weapons MORE (R-Ky.) signaled on Tuesday that he is open to changing the president's national emergency powers as support grows within the GOP caucus for amending the National Emergencies Act.
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But Mr. Trump seems determined to turn that around: In his discussion of last week's coup attempt in Turkey, he spoke admiringly of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the way he put down the military uprising, but Mr. Trump offered no warnings that Mr. Erdogan needed to obey the rule of law in what appeared to be a huge purge and a declaration of emergency powers.
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Trump made a series of eleventh-hour pleas to Republicans to vote against the resolution of disapproval, ranging from being open to amending emergency powers in the future to warning they were siding with Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiWhy President Trump needs to speak out on Hong Kong Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Pelosi warns Mnuchin to stop 'illegal' .
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They also did not impose new restrictions on President TrumpDonald John TrumpRepublican group targets Graham in ad calling for fair Senate trial Democratic presidential candidates react to Trump impeachment: 'No one is above the law' Trump attacks Schumer at fiery rally in Michigan MORE's ability to use emergency powers to redirect certain defense funds toward the wall, though courts have at least temporarily blocked such actions.
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But that decision, authored by current Supreme Court Justice Brett KavanaughBrett Michael KavanaughMajority disapprove of Trump Supreme Court nominations, says poll These 3 women are defining the race to unseat Trump On The Money: Supreme Court takes up challenge to CFPB | Warren's surge brings scrutiny to wealth tax | Senators eye curbs on Trump emergency powers MORE, was overturned by the full appeals court in 85033.
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Against that backdrop, Elizabeth Goitein, who oversaw a recent study of presidential emergency powers for the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, said that Mr. Trump's move, if he indeed followed through, would be an abuse of power and set a precedent that risked making it "open season" for presidents to cynically claim that a national emergency existed to evade democratic constraints.
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The House passed legislation Tuesday to block President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's emergency declaration for the southern border, marking an unprecedented congressional challenge to a president's authority to invoke emergency powers.
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Sean SpicerSean Michael SpicerMisplaced outrage over who attends a White House press conference Trump-NBC battle highlights shortcomings of White House coronavirus briefings The Hill's 12:30 Report: Trump triggers emergency powers to fight outbreak MORE appeared in the White House press room as a reporter on Friday, marking the former White House press secretary's first appearance there since his departure from the Trump administration in August 85033.
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Overnight Health Care: Trump triggers emergency powers in coronavirus fight | McConnell sets first stimulus vote for Sunday | Five sticking points for stimulus talks | Treasury delays tax filing deadline | Dems push insurers to cover virus tests Democrats press insurers to cover all coronavirus testing MORE, former Georgia House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams, and former Deputy U.S. Attorney General Sally YatesSally Caroline YatesWho should be the Democratic vice presidential candidate?
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Shortly thereafter, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) followed Wisconsin's lead and started to use emergency powers to temporarily schedule fentanyl as a class for the entire U.S. By removing the incentive for foreign chemical and drug manufacturers to modify the fentanyl molecule just enough to stay ahead of U.S. scheduling and skirt law enforcement, the creation of new fentanyl-related substances has ground to a halt internationally.
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Mr. Trump asserted the power to tap three additional pots of money on his own: $600 million from a Treasury Department asset forfeiture fund for law enforcement priorities; about $2.5 billion from a military antidrug account, most of which would first be siphoned from other military programs the Pentagon has yet to identify; and $3.6 billion in military construction funds he said he could redirect by invoking an emergency-powers statute.
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In declaring a national emergency to access funds denied by Congress to build a border wall, Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE is not the first politician to invoke emergency powers to bypass the challenges of democratic governance.
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Friday's briefing started with something of a sideshow atmosphere given the presence of former White House press secretary Sean SpicerSean Michael SpicerMisplaced outrage over who attends a White House press conference Trump-NBC battle highlights shortcomings of White House coronavirus briefings The Hill's 12:30 Report: Trump triggers emergency powers to fight outbreak MORE, who walked into the briefing room and took a seat among the journalists as a new employee of Newsmax.
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Mr. Trump has vowed to use broad emergency powers to impose a 143 percent tariff beginning on Monday and to increase the rate to 25 percent by October if Mexico doesn't stem the flow of migrants to the U.S. Side effects: Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, said the central bank was watching Mr. Trump's trade disputes and hinted that interest rates could be cut to ease the economic repercussions.
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Finally, tell us more about what you think: In the related article, "In Wielding Emergency Powers, Trump Paves a Dangerous Path Forward," Carl Hulse writes: Many in both parties now say that the presidential decision to act unilaterally and fund construction for a border wall via an emergency declaration would establish a dangerous new model, encouraging presidents thwarted by Congress to simply cite such a crisis to spend dollars however and wherever they pleased.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE recently announced he could invoke national emergency powers to divert military funds to build his long-promised border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, since Congress won't give him $5 billion in funding.
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A month later, it was White House senior adviser Stephen MillerStephen MillerThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Top immigration aide experienced 'jolt of electricity to my soul' when Trump announced campaign New green card restrictions likely would've excluded Trump and Cuccinelli's ancestors MORE's turn when Wallace pressed him to cite another example of a president invoking national emergency powers to get money denied by Congress, a step Trump had taken days earlier.
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"They took many of our companies & jobs, the foolish Pols let it happen," Mr. Trump said, "And now they will come back unless Mexico stops the travesty that is taking place in allowing millions of people to easily meander through their country and INVADE the U.S." Republican senators have proposed legislation to curb Mr. Trump's authority to impose tariffs, but they have not targeted the emergency powers law that he is proposing to use in this case.
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Her vote last year to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett KavanaughBrett Michael KavanaughMajority disapprove of Trump Supreme Court nominations, says poll These 85033 women are defining the race to unseat Trump On The Money: Supreme Court takes up challenge to CFPB | Warren's surge brings scrutiny to wealth tax | Senators eye curbs on Trump emergency powers MORE as he faced sexual misconduct allegations infuriated liberals and sparked an intense effort to recruit candidates to challenge the longtime senator.
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Her vote last year to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett KavanaughBrett Michael KavanaughMajority disapprove of Trump Supreme Court nominations, says poll These 3 women are defining the race to unseat Trump On The Money: Supreme Court takes up challenge to CFPB | Warren's surge brings scrutiny to wealth tax | Senators eye curbs on Trump emergency powers MORE as he faced sexual misconduct allegations infuriated liberals and sparked an intense effort to recruit candidates to challenge the longtime senator.
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In the aftermath of a brutal and heavily politicized confirmation process of Justice Brett KavanaughBrett Michael KavanaughMajority disapprove of Trump Supreme Court nominations, says poll These 3 women are defining the race to unseat Trump On The Money: Supreme Court takes up challenge to CFPB | Warren's surge brings scrutiny to wealth tax | Senators eye curbs on Trump emergency powers MORE, Chief Justice John Roberts seemingly sought to avoid being viewed as a politicalized body in the Trump era.
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The poll also shows that the partisan battle over Justice Brett KavanaughBrett Michael KavanaughMajority disapprove of Trump Supreme Court nominations, says poll These 22019 women are defining the race to unseat Trump On The Money: Supreme Court takes up challenge to CFPB | Warren's surge brings scrutiny to wealth tax | Senators eye curbs on Trump emergency powers MORE's confirmation last year has had a lasting impact on the public's perception of the court and Kavanaugh in particular.
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Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiThe Hill's Morning Report - Presented by Airbnb - Senate overcomes hurdles, passes massive coronavirus bill Overnight Health Care — Presented by PCMA — Last-minute complaints threaten T coronavirus aid deal | What's in the package | Pelosi scrambles to secure quick passage | Expanded testing shows signs of strain Pelosi: Democrats eyeing more cash payments in next emergency bill MORE (D-Calif.) has warned that those problems could only worsen if Trump doesn't use his emergency powers to ramp up production of supplies.
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The encouraging statistics arrived as confirmed cases continued to surge in countries like Italy and as President TrumpDonald John TrumpNorth Korea asking for aid, while denying any coronavirus cases: report Iranian official maintains Tehran has 'no knowledge' of American hostage's whereabouts Unemployment claims surge to 3.2 million as coronavirus devastates economy MORE invoked emergency powers to address the pandemic in the U.S. Italy reported 475 deaths from the virus on Wednesday alone, bringing its total death tally to 2,978 deaths.
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The president's many demeaning statements about women and his appointment of Justice Brett KavanaughBrett Michael KavanaughMajority disapprove of Trump Supreme Court nominations, says poll These 3 women are defining the race to unseat Trump On The Money: Supreme Court takes up challenge to CFPB | Warren's surge brings scrutiny to wealth tax | Senators eye curbs on Trump emergency powers MORE to the Supreme Court in the face of credible accusations against the jurist of sexual assault have no doubt made many Republican women rethink their party affiliation.
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Rep. Will HurdWilliam Ballard HurdDemocrats keen to take on Cornyn despite formidable challenges Republicans offer support for Steve King challenger House Democrats target 2020 GOP incumbents in new ad MORE (R-Texas) said Sunday that the U.S. has entered "uncharted territory" with President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's use of national emergency powers to secure funding for a wall along the southern border.
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Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Mueller report fades from political conversation Five key players in Trump's trade battles MORE (D-Calif.) said Wednesday that the House would not take up proposed Senate legislation to rein in national emergency powers, a bill put forward as part of an effort to give Republicans cover to side with President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE on the border wall.
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Susan CollinsSusan Margaret CollinsCook Political Report moves Susan Collins Senate race to 'toss up' The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy Trump crosses new line with Omar, Tlaib, Israel move MORE (Maine) and Rand PaulRandal (Rand) Howard PaulGraham promises ObamaCare repeal if Trump, Republicans win in 2020 Conservatives buck Trump over worries of 'socialist' drug pricing Rand Paul to 'limit' August activities due to health MORE (Ky.), two of the other GOP yes votes, indicated Tuesday that a deal on amending a president's emergency powers wouldn't change how they view the current emergency declaration.
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House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby ScottRobert (Bobby) Cortez ScottOvernight Health Care: Trump triggers emergency powers in coronavirus fight | McConnell sets first stimulus vote for Sunday | Five sticking points for stimulus talks | Treasury delays tax filing deadline | Dems push insurers to cover virus tests House chairman calls on Trump administration to appoint medical supply coordinator Black voters propel Biden to big wins in Virginia, NC, Alabama MORE (D-Va.) on Friday called on the Trump administration to appoint a designated official to coordinate the efforts to distribute adequate protective gear and supplies to health workers across the United States.
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Y.) and Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard ShelbyRichard Craig ShelbyOn The Money: Pelosi, Trump tout deal on new NAFTA | McConnell says no trade vote until impeachment trial wraps up | Lawmakers push spending deadline to Thursday Lawmakers push spending deadline to Thursday Doug Loverro's job is to restore American spaceflight to the ISS and the moon MORE (R-Ala.) had hoped to button up a deal by Sunday, and kept working into the week on a slew of tough issues that include President Trump's proposed border wall, immigration enforcement, abortion-related issues, and Trump's use of emergency powers to reprogram money toward the wall.
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