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Why Trump’s National Emergency is Congress-Proof—At Least for Now

by Martin Longman March 4, 2019January 9, 2022

A Supreme Court ruling in the 1980s stripped Congress of the right to exercise legislative vetoes.

Better Congress

Political Animal

Congress Will Rebuke Trump’s National Emergency Declaration

by Martin Longman February 26, 2019January 9, 2022

Trump Pentagon Speech

Political Animal

To Survive, Donald Trump Will Try to Annihilate Truth

by Nancy LeTourneau February 18, 2019January 9, 2022

FEMA US Homeland Security Form

July/August 1995, Magazine

The FEMA Phoenix

by Daniel Franklin July 1, 1995January 9, 2022