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https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/presidential-emergency-action-documents
More evidence that they are desperate - enlisting "help" from the media apparently. Typical playbook.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-ap-top-news-politics-c596e78d503f953fc8acf1eaad1b4dea
Questions about Trump’s PEADs went unanswered by the Justice Department, National Security Council and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Elizabeth Goitein, co-director of a national security program at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, said PEADs have not been subject to congressional oversight for decades. She estimates that there are 50 to 60 of these documents, which include draft proclamations, executive orders and proposed legislation that could be swiftly introduced to “assert broad presidential authority” in national emergencies
Plus, I thought we liked John Yoo Berkley Attorney - but, as typical with Trump he calls in the experts.
Trump, new legal guru meet at White House
By Justine Coleman - 08/02/20 02:56 PM EDT
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/510202-trump-new-legal-guru-meet-at-white-house-report
MaybeTrump wanted review of the classified PEADS that Obama wrote?
Also of note:
In 1973, the Congressional Church Committee, attempted to uncover various unconstitutional acts by the Executive Branch in the wake of The Watergate Scandal. This committee ended up finding copious amounts of evidence that presidents and their agents had routinely violated the Constitution going back to at least the Roosevelt Administration. The conclusions of the Committee were that the President indeed could: “seize property and commodities, seize control of transport and communications, organize and control the means of production, assign military forces abroad, and restrict travel." They also revealed that States of Emergency had been implemented and remained permanent for decades. The Committees findings were largely ignored by the public, as the Ford Administration did their best to thwart their activities, and a bill they eventually passed to terminate national emergencies after six months was completely ineffective and eventually forgotten. In 1977 Congress passed the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the Office of Foreign Assets Control which expanded the Presidents ability to declare National Emergencies and implement unconstitutional policies.[8]
No memoranda that are more recent than 1979 have been found that contain references to PEADs. However, CNN reported in 1991 that the Reagan administration had continued COG planning and revealed plans drafted by then Vice President George H. W. Bush that included a separate line of succession to the presidency conflicting with the Constitution.[9]