re: #126 Anymouse 🌹

Mr. Johnson is not the only one who noticed that “emergency powers” crap. Lawrence Tribe cites the same Atlantic article I did above in a tweet just now.

To seize that land and enforce any putative emergency order, he would have to use the Army (which is allowed under the emergency powers act in question). At that instant, we would have a constitutional crisis. A) The Army refuses orders (sworn to uphold the Constitution, not the President), and we have a de facto military dictatorship, B) Some elements of the Army comply and others do not, effectively pitting Army formations against each other (Civil War Part Deux), C) The whole Army complies and landowners revolt and the streets are filled with millions of protestors.

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the people in the military, the individuals, the boots on the ground taking other peoples land away etc, ….they’re still gonna wanna get paid