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What specific power does the executive branch have now that it would lose without this specific state of emergency order? Beyond the power to easily distribute EUA vaccines and tests, anything?
Undoctored says
What specific power does the executive branch have now that it would lose without this specific state of emergency order? Beyond the power to easily distribute EUA vaccines and tests, anything?
I could be making this up but didn’t Biden use the state of emergency to justify the student loan forgiveness?
I could be making this up but didn’t Biden use the state of emergency to justify the student loan forgiveness?
... to be immediately slapped down in court.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will keep in place the public health emergency status of the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing millions of Americans to still receive free tests, vaccines and treatments, two Biden administration officials said on Friday.
RWSGFY says
I could be making this up but didn’t Biden use the state of emergency to justify the student loan forgiveness?
... to be immediately slapped down in court.
Yes, but only after the midterms. Biden's handlers knew student loan forgiveness would be struck down by courts, but it was a political pander to get student debtor votes.
But did he really need any "coof emergency" to go ahead with it? I think he would've done it anyway, emergency or not.
While the Emergency is in place all factors of the HERO Act stay.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6800
It was a shock, however, that the Senate decided to push back on the perpetual overreach by voting Tuesday to end the perpetual emergency.
I guess the Senate thought 975 days of "15 days to slow the spread" was enough.
From the Wall Street Journal:
Senate lawmakers voted on Tuesday to end the federal government's emergency declaration on the Covid-19 pandemic, a status that has given the Biden administration tools to combatthe coronavirus.
The Senate voted 62-36 to end the emergency declaration nearly three years after it was invoked. It's unclear if the House will take up the measure. ...
But...
First off, the House probably won't take up this bipartisan effort while Pelosi is still in charge.
Joe Biden has also said he'll veto the effort because of course. ...
It's almost as if giving emergency powers like this is bad and there's a reason we need checks and balances in the system.
Once you give someone power they won't ever willingly give it up.
So, here we are.
Just be patient. Just another 1,000 days to slow the spread. Then they'll give the power right back!
End the National Emergency and Public Health Emergency Declarations
Stop the Abuses of Power, Corruption, and Fiscal Irresponsibility
January 11, 2023 11:24am EST
Biden administration extends COVID-19 public health emergency yet again
COVID-19 mRNA "Vaccines" Are The Opti-Grab of Immunological Products.
PREP Act legal immunity for countermeasures creates perverse incentives.
The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act) was enacted on December 30, 2005, as Public Law 109-148, Division C, Section 2. The Act authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) to issue a Declaration to provide liability immunity to certain individuals and entities (Covered Persons) against any claim of loss caused by, arising out of, relating to, or resulting from the manufacture, distribution, administration, or use of medical countermeasures (Covered Countermeasures), except for claims involving “willful misconduct” as defined in the PREP Act.
In addition to the COVID-19 PREP Act declaration that is currently in effect, nine other disease categories and even certain nerve agents and insecticides are the subject of current PREP Act declarations.
This means that if you are a Covered Person engaged in the business of countermeasures, you are protected from legal liability if your product or service injures someone. ...
In other words, any Public Health Emergency is, as a result of this legislative framework, certain to be a liability-free bonanza for anyone engaged in the business of medical countermeasures. ...
The trouble with this arrangement is that it generates a massive perverse incentive to declare a public health emergency even when there is none, as we saw last summer with the PREP Act declaration for Monkeypox. Still worse is the terrible temptation to CREATE a public health emergency.
A comical depiction of product liability was in the 1979 film, The Jerk, about a moron named Navin Johnson who invents an eyeglasses frame enhancement called the Opti-Grab. Soon after becoming filthy rich from his invention, he is ruined because the Opti-Grab makes its users cross eyed. ...
In their poor and hasty conception, the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines will ultimately go down in history as the “Opti-Grab” of immunological products. To be sure, the damages they inflict are infinitely worse, and the creators of these so-called “countermeasures” bear no liability.
The Government of Canada Put Out a Tender Notice for a New Pan-Canadian Digital Health Credential Technology, Including the Proof of Vaccination
The Canadian government is moving in lockstep with the Agenda 2030
Yes, the blueprints are Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm.
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Yes, the blueprints are Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm.
I recommend everybody to either re-read 1984, or consume the audio book version of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBPNrVQwqeo
I have that ripped as an MP3, but I have no idea how I can share it. I guess I could make a torrent of it, if anybody wants it.
Fire At New Zealand's Largest Egg Farm Kills 75,000 Hens Amid National Shortage
https://rumble.com/v1eg8hb-australian-sen.-alex-antic-lays-out-the-cabals-plan-for-absolute-power-.html
Biden is a senile incontinent criminal. The whole Biden family is a crime family, not to mention the Newsom/Pelosi family.
March 10, 2023
Today, the FDA issued a notice addressing the agency’s COVID-19-related guidance documents, including which of those guidance documents will no longer be in effect after the expiration of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) declared under the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, and which of those guidance documents the FDA is revising to temporarily continue in effect. ...
Importantly, the ending of the PHE declared under the PHS Act will not impact the FDA’s ability to authorize devices (including tests), treatments or vaccines for emergency use. Existing emergency use authorizations (EUAs) for products will remain in effect and the agency may continue to issue new EUAs going forward when criteria for issuance are met.
In Giorgio Agamben’s book on the concept of a State of Exception, Agamben discusses how the “state of exception” can become extended over long periods of time to control populations. His examples include how the United States detained and treated prisoners captured during the "war on terror", and how Hitler used a state of exemption to maintain control over the German government and it peoples beginning early in the 1930s.
During much of his 81 years of life, Georgio Agamben was considered the darling of the left in Europe. His scholarly works were well received and he was blessed with great accolades.
Then came the year 2020 and COVID-19. This is when Agamben turned his ideas about the state of exemption onto the COVIDcrisis and with that, became the enemy of both academia and the state. He had begun writing a blog, which was “removed” by the heavy hand of authorities, so he then morphed this block of writing into the following book, published in 2021.
Queen Hotchibobo has spoken! The Santa Fe New Mexican ran a story yesterday headlined, “Governor bans carrying guns in Albuquerque after 11-year-old killed.”
https://twitter.com/beauhightowerdn/status/1700288222734020921
Who cares if it’s unconstitutional? If it saves just one life.
On Thursday, New Mexico’s Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham declared gun violence to be a public health emergency. The next day, yesterday, on the strength of Thursday’s emergency order she signed another emergency public health order that, effective immediately, prohibits citizens from carrying firearms, either open or concealed, in Albuquerque and Bernalillo County for the next 30 days, regardless of whether they have a permit. ...
Governor Grisham said she “will either amend or remove or adjust” the order after the 30-day ban period, depending on “circumstances.” Circumstances like how her emotions are feeling that day. “I realize, it is a pinch, and then some, on responsible gun owners,” Governor Grisham explained. “It’s a sacrifice that allows everyone else to get their arms around the growing, significant problem.”
Got that? A “sacrifice.” By responsible gun owners. For the greater good.
During the press conference, Governor Grisham explained she doesn’t think that constitutional rights are absolute, especially in emergencies. And she can make an emergency whenever she wants! All social problems are potentially emergencies! It’s great! ...
"If I’ve declared an emergency, I can invoke additional powers. No constitutional right, including my oath, is intended to be absolute…"
New Mexico Republicans were not amused. Many called her a “dictator” and other words that I can’t reproduce in this family blog. Senate Minority Leader Greg Baca (R-Belen) slammed Lujan Grisham’s order as “unconstitutional” in a statement from Senate Republicans, saying her “soft-on-crime approach has failed and put the safety of all New Mexicans in great jeopardy.”
Representative Baca has a point. The Governor just disarmed all the people who follow the law, and as she said, criminals don’t follow laws anyway. Maybe the hoodlums will go along with it since it’s a public health order.
This is just more rotten pandemic fruit. Governors who want to do unconstitutional things now think all they need to do is declare a public health emergency. It worked for covid, after all.
As I’ve said many times before, emergency executive authority is the worst, most anti-democratic idea ever, and we need to drown it in weed-killer everywhere it has sprouted up. The good news is, there are a lot of attorneys who now have plenty of practice challenging insane government overreach like this.
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https://www.bobmoran.co.uk/other-work/its-tuesday-original-artwork
The rights of the people must never be abrogated in any way, not even for a moment, under any circumstances whatsoever. Any government which attempts abrogation is illegitimate.