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I write & teach about presidential power under the US Constitution @AU_SPA. I don't like bullies or people who enable bullies.
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President’s Contrived Emergencies Seek to Erase Legal Limits on War Powers

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By Chris Edelson
| acslaw.org
Over the past three months, the Trump administration has effectively gone to war with an amorphous foe. Although the administration describes this as “non-international [i.e. not between nations] armed conflict” with vaguely defined drug cartels, it is in fact a one-sided affair in which U.S. missiles have struck and killed more than 80 people on boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific.
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Trump Is Using Fake Emergencies to Grab More Power than King George III

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By Chris Edelson
| Strategic Wisdom
When Donald Trump announced last month that he had taken control of the Washington, D.C. police department, he invoked the D.C. Home Rule Act, which allows the president to place local police under federal control in an emergency, as the basis for his action. While some might take that to suggest Trump was acting lawfully, Trump had no basis for his invocation of that law.
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How Do You Know Trump’s Minions Won’t Come for You?

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By Chris Edelson
| Smirking Chimp
What assurance do any of us have that government agents will not knock at our door, claiming authority to detain us? How do we know that masked agents will not abduct us on the street, taking us somewhere far away? In ordinary times and places, it would be madness to ask such questions. Rumeysa Ozturk may well have thought so before masked, plainclothes government agents took her off the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts and she ended up in Louisiana.
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