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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Carol Platt Liebau: Abuse of Executive Actions and Emergency Powers
Description: Environmental extremists and their congressional allies are urging President Biden to declare a national climate emergency. Doing so could allow the president to take extraordinary measures like banning crude oil exports, halting new oil and gas drilling, and curbing fossil fuel imports and exports. Although emergency powers are supposed to be temporary, don’t count on it. Forty-one emergency declarations—some more than four decades old—are still in effect today. Using emergency powers to impose unpopular policies is an abuse of office. Under the separation of powers set forth in our Constitution, if the presid...