Politics

A Trump State of Emergency Might be 'Best Worst Option'

STOP MAKING SENSE

Ironically, the 1976 Presidential Emergencies Reform Act was one of the post-Watergate reforms put in place to rein in presidential power.

Eleanor Clift
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