NYC Bar Calls For Check On White House Emergency Powers (Law360)

Law360, April 24, 2020

NYC Bar Calls For Check On White House Emergency Powers

The New York City Bar Association has thrown its weight behind a bill that would curb some of the White House’s emergency powers, citing the Senate’s recent failures to block President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency along the southern border last year. The Article One Act, which would install a 30-day clock on a National Emergency Act declaration, gained traction in Congress after the Republican-controlled Senate voted several times to pull the plug on Trump’s declaration but failed to secure the majority needed to bypass a veto. Utah Republican Mike Lee is the bill’s lead sponsor.

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