90 Miles From Tyranny : Biden Has No Right To Declare A ‘National Climate Emergency’

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Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Biden Has No Right To Declare A ‘National Climate Emergency’


The real emergency is that we have a lawless party in power.

he Washington Post reported Monday night that President Joe Biden is “considering declaring a national climate emergency” to “salvage his environmental agenda in the wake of stalled talks on Capitol Hill.” A few hours later, the Associated Press reported that the administration would “hold off” on the announcement as he, presumably, lays the political groundwork to move forward.

There’s no “It’s Summer” clause in the Constitution, empowering the president to ignore the will of Congress and unilaterally govern when it gets hot. The rejection of the president’s “agenda” by the lawmaking branch of government isn’t a justification for executive action, it’s the opposite. The Senate has unambiguously declined to implement Biden’s climate plan.

Though you have to marvel at the utter shamelessness of Democrats, incessantly warning that “democracy” is on the precipice of extinction, now urging the president to act like a petty dictator. It’s been less than a month since the Supreme Court rejected the Environmental Protection Agency’s claim that bureaucrats could govern without Congress to regulate carbon (which is to say, the entire economy). What makes anyone believe that the president—who, incidentally, just got back from begging Saudi theocrats to pump more oil—is imbued with the power to enact a new regulatory regime or funding by fiat?

We now have senators like Jeff Merkley, who told reporters on Monday that Biden’s emergency edict “unchains the president from waiting for Congress to act,” openly undermining their oath to the Constitution by attacking the institution they represent. Congress may have spent decades abdicating its responsibilities—which, despite conventional wisdom, isn’t to rubber stamp the Democrats’ agenda—but its members rarely advocated openly for executive abuse. I guess they’re evolving.

Bloomberg reports that a emergency declaration would “unlock” the president’s power to “redirect federal funding to clean-energy construction.” When Donald Trump enacted an emergency declaration to reallocate funding earmarked for military projects to build a wall on the U.S. Southern border—“a clear attempt to circumvent the legislative branch and one that I hope leads to the Supreme Court overturning the abused National Emergencies Act,” I wrote at the time, so save your emails—the entire establishment melted down. “Declaring a National Emergency Could Give Trump Authoritarian Powers,” a columnist at New York claimed. “A Win For Trump’s Authoritarian Agenda,” wrote another in Forbes. And so on. It’s worth remembering the border is within the purview of the federal government. Trying to control the weather is not.

Which brings us to another small problem: There is no emergency. Politicians might treat every hurricane, tornado, and flood as an apocalyptic event—and then conveniently blame their political opponents for failing to...




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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

We are still a Constitutional Republic (on life support).
Democracy is mob rule.
Yes democracy is in danger and thats a good thing.

MMinWA said...

It's not a government, it's a criminal cartel.

Anonymous said...

Blah blah blah. Blabber all they want. Per the Constitution, unconstitutional laws are null and void, and the supreme court declared it unconstitutional. So let the petulant children hold their breath until they turn blue and pass out if they want. We still don't have to answer to unconstitutional laws!

Anonymous said...

Change the sentence to Biden wants to declare martial law and see how that sounds

Anonymous said...

The climate emergency needs to happen closer to the midterms. Then emperor palpatine can dissolve the senate - wait, that was in Star Wars.

JG said...

Bottom line: the incumbents that are running in Congress should have voted Biden out by 25th and the rest of his Admin by impeachment no matter what party they are by now. So when they are up for election if they have not tried vote them out.