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by Terr_ 435 days ago
For a concrete example, the law Trump is abusing--where some smuggled fentanyl constitutes National Emergency that lets him invent a tax on Americans--states that any motion in the House to terminate the "emergency" must be given a vote within 15 days or less.

But last month, the Republican majority in the House voted (party-line) to declare that calendar-days for the rest of the year just... don't actually count as time passing, for no particular reason.

That's active complicity.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/house-republicans-block-con...

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolutio...