@[email protected] I've been saying it for years but this election made it abundantly clear: narrative is all, facts are irrelevant
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"Today Trump confirmed that he intends to bypass normal legal constraints on his actions by declaring a national emergency on his first day in office in order to launch his mass deportation of undocumented migrants."@[email protected] it is (apparently) a norm not to declare emergencies in order to justify deploying the military on US soil.
There's apparently no law preventing this, it just "isn't done." Until it is. And that's not a great way to run things. -
"Today Trump confirmed that he intends to bypass normal legal constraints on his actions by declaring a national emergency on his first day in office in order to launch his mass deportation of undocumented migrants."@[email protected] And this is why it's a terrible, bad, awful idea to rely on "norms" to ensure good behavior