#emergency-powers

#emergency-powers

The Government argues first that the doctrine should not apply to emergency statutes. Brief for Federal Parties 35- 36. But this argument is nearly identical to one it already advanced in Nebraska. There, the Government contended that a different emergency statute should be interpreted broadly because its "whole point" was to provide "substantial discretion to . . . respond to unforeseen emergencies." 600 U. S., at 500 (internal quotation marks omitted).

After the 2020 election, Cleta Mitchell, then a partner at Foley & Lardner, participated in the infamous phone call in which Trump tried to pressure Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to find 11,780 votes, which was one more than Trump's margin of defeat in the state. Raffensperger denied Trump's baseless claims of fraud. Mitchell later alleged that Raffensperger was simply not correct. After the call became public, Mitchell resigned from Foley & Lardner.

The president claimed that our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and criminals; however, violent crime in DC is down sharply from last year and at a 30-year low.