US President Donald Trump introduced more extraordinary states than any other leader of this country in the recent history – noted Axios on Friday. The American leader – writes the portal – uses this method to expand his rights and diminish the role of Congress.
Key facts:
- Donald Trump uses extraordinary states to make changes independently, which in many cases would require the consent of the Congress.
- Similarly, the US President acted by introducing duties on other countries, when he used the law from the 1970s, which provides for extending the rights in situations of “extraordinary and extraordinary threats” to America's security.
- This method of exercising power raises anxiety about the desire to disorder the constitutional triangular power.
The right to announce the National Emergency States has been conceived as a way of granting the President the possibility of acting in a more flexible way during crises. In the case of Trump, the introduction of an extraordinary state has become a way to exercise governments and skip the decision stage requiring the consent of the congress – explains the portal.
Legal experts are afraid that the use of this method, combined with attacks on the judiciary, is to lead to a change in the constitutional balance of power between the executive, legislative and judicial authorities – reports Axios.
Trump used the introduction of emergency states to impose duties on other countries, accelerate energy production, mining raw materials, or militarizing federal areas at the border with Mexico.
Extension of powers only in situations of “extraordinary threats”
By the right to announce an extraordinary situation in international economic relations (IEEPA), the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) may be used to expand their rights only in situations of “extraordinary and extraordinary threats” to the national security of America, its economy or foreign policy. Meanwhile, Trump used them to apply customs duties on your allies USAor even small countries and uninhabited islands – writes Axios.
As the portal continues, “according to the White House, America's trade relations cultivated for decades (…) qualify as such a threat.”
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Method of exercising power from the first presidency
Elizabeth Goitein, director of the Brennan Center's Liberty and National Security research program at the University of New York, explains in an interview with the portal that Trump for the first time broke unwritten standards regarding the use of such methods in 2019, when he announced an extraordinary situation on the southern border, bypassing the congress. for the construction of a border wall.
As a result, a provision created in 1977 regarding an extraordinary situation in economic relations, intended to serve the President in confrontation with hostile powers and never previously used to impose duties, is now used to change the global economic order – Axios concludes.
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