"Emergency authorities are not tools for presidents to enact their policy agendas," said Liza Goitein, the senior director of the Brennan Center's liberty and national security program. "They are intended for sudden, unexpected crises that can't be handled through the normal operations of government. Trump abused emergency powers to impose worldwide tariffs and to reorient US energy production toward fossil fuels, bypassing Congress. There was no emergency in either case.
"And he's abusing military deployment authorities now to suppress protests against his immigration policies, authorizing the deployment of federal forces anywhere in the country where protests against Ice may occur regardless of whether they involve violence or law-breaking."…
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