Charlie Savage’s avatarCharlie Savage’s Twitter Archive—№ 10,663

    1. Is it accurate that presidents have chronically abused the power to declare a "national emergency," @DouthatNYT? Which specific historical example or examples are you referring to?
      oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
  1. …in reply to @charlie_savage
    (& what's the definition of "abuse" for that pattern whose existence I'm challenging? A bad-faith claim that an "emergency" exists, to achieve a policy goal Congress had specifically weighed and rejected?)