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For reference: Article 48 Wikipedia I’m trying to understand how anyone with any knowledge of the history of dictators could possibly justify granting a president unchecked “official” power so if anyone has any actual theories I am ALL ears.

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[-] stembolts@programming.dev 72 points 5 months ago

Random guess, it grants some sort of overreaching privilege to some agencies and they are clinging onto that overreaching power?

Anyone got a real answer?

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 21 points 5 months ago

So, national emergencies can do some of that, but this one has more to do with financing of programs, and the legal basis for financial sanctions relating to fighting terrorism. It also allows for more flexible hiring of military officers and for there to be more generals than usual.

The actual things being changed by the emergency declaration is listed in the order.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13224

It's basically "we don't need to ask Congress when the Treasury department tells a bank they can't send money to specific overseas accounts".

[-] mononomi@feddit.nl 11 points 5 months ago

Guantanamo bay is still a thing so my guess is that?

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