Thursday, October 13, 2022

Unending ‘Emergency Powers’ Enable Authoritarian Behavior Such As Suspending Elections

 The United States will be operating under a falsified state of emergency through yet another hotly contested election

  • The Biden administration has announced they plan to renew the emergency powers for political reasons, not due to a legitimate emergency
  • Ending the emergency would complicate the desire for Americans to take another round of Covid booster shots, as new disclosures show the government secretly paid TV entertainers and pressured social media to push its shot narrative and validate billions in government contracts to pharmaceutical companies
  • Democrats want to keep using Covid as an excuse for other wasteful and inflationary "emergency" federal spending on agencies that have demonstrated deep corruption

Permanent Changes During 'Emergency' Rule

  • The so-called "emergency" changes to America's electoral process largely remain in place today, two years after they resulted in massive social strife and widespread distrust in American elections.
  • State, local, and federal elected officials rolled over to leftists' clearly tactical demands for degrading election integrity
  • Swing districts allowed Democrat activist machines to run their election systems and operate Democrat get-out-the-vote operations through public offices
  • Mail-in balloting increases ballot error rates to within the margin of many electoral victories, allowing election officials to affect election outcomes by rejecting or accepting votes

A Never-Ending Supply of Manufactured Emergencies

  • Should Biden lose Covid as an excuse for his administration's lawless and barely restrained exercise of power, he has several other options
  • One of them would be turning our nation's proxy war with Russia over Ukraine into a hot war between nuclear powers.
  • There's also the administration's full-on jettisoning of the U.S. border to control by international criminal cartels that profit from drug and human trafficking in the absence of US-imposed law and order.

Past Time for Some Serious Checks and Balances

  • Like Barack Obama before him, Biden has been a master of executive overreach
  • His administration is perfecting the Covid-developed technique of ruling simply by press release
  • This administration has issued some edict without issuing an accompanying regulation that civil rights groups can spend the next 15 years challenging while the regulation is assumed to be law as soon as it's issued, with no input at all from Congress
  • There is no logical endpoint to this kind of behavior

Dear Legislatures: Rein in Rogue Officials Already

  • Every single "emergency powers" statute in this country needs to be definitively time-limited, immediately
  • If presidents and governors can suspend Americans' rights indefinitely, with no limiting principle, and courts won't stop them, then we have no rights. Rights secured only at the whim of the executive and after years of delay are not rights at all. Tyranny.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/13/unending-emergency-powers-enable-authoritarian-behavior-such-as-suspending-elections/

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