Where Does It Say Biden Has The Authority To Declare A Climate Emergency?

[Rightguide]

Biden Has No Right To Declare a National Climate Emergency​

By David Harsanyi​

July 22, 2022


The Washington Post reported Monday night that President Joe Biden is "considering whether to declare a national climate emergency" to "salvage his stalled environmental agenda and satisfy Democrats on Capitol Hill." A few hours later, the Associated Press reported that the administration would "hold off" on the announcement as he, presumably, lays the political groundwork to move forward.

There's no "It's Summer" clause in the Constitution empowering the president to ignore the will of Congress and unilaterally govern when it gets hot. The rejection of the president's "agenda" by the lawmaking branch of government isn't a justification for executive action; it's the opposite. The Senate has unambiguously declined to implement Biden's climate plan.

Though you have to marvel at the utter shamelessness of Democrats, incessantly warning that "democracy" is on the precipice of extinction, now urging the president to act like a petty dictator. It's been less than a month since the Supreme Court rejected the Environmental Protection Agency's claim that bureaucrats could govern without Congress to regulate carbon (which is to say, the entire economy). What makes anyone believe that the president — who, incidentally, just got back from begging Saudi theocrats to pump more oil — is imbued with the power to enact a new regulatory regime or funding by fiat?

We now have senators like Jeff Merkley, who told reporters on Monday that Biden's emergency edict "unchains the president from waiting for Congress to act," openly undermining their oath to the Constitution by attacking the institution they represent. Congress may have spent decades abdicating its responsibilities — which, despite conventional wisdom, isn't to rubber-stamp the Democrats' agenda — but its members rarely advocated openly for executive abuse. I guess they're evolving.

Bloomberg reports that an emergency declaration would "unlock" the president's power to redirect "federal funding to clean-energy construction." When former President Donald Trump enacted an emergency declaration to reallocate funding earmarked for military projects to build a wall on the U.S. southern border — "a clear attempt to circumvent the legislative branch and one that I hope leads to the Supreme Court overturning the abused National Emergencies Act," I wrote at the time, so save your emails — the entire establishment melted down. "Declaring a National Emergency Could Give Trump Authoritarian Powers," a columnist at New York Magazine claimed. "A Win For Trump's Authoritarian Agenda," wrote another in Forbes. And so on. It's worth remembering the border is within the purview of the federal government. Trying to control the weather is not.

More here: https://www.creators.com/read/david...right-to-declare-a-national-climate-emergency

The President has no such authority whatsoever. The Constitution gives him no such authority and the Congress hasn't even pretended to grant him that authority.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

Why the fuck do you whine so gottdamn much about shit that won't happen?

 

[ll74]

It's a public health declaration. Not rocket science

 

[phrodeau]

Those who are seeking for any excuse to impeach Biden would like Rightguide to stifle himself.

 

[anarchoMando]

14th amendment.

 

[QueequegsHead]

He can declare it all he wants.

Can he put real teeth in it without the Congress? Only for the political institutions under his control,
i.e., he can force everyone in the Federal Government to drive electric cars* and turn up the thermostat
in the summer and use those tiny battery powered fans on their desk and in their vehicles and in the winter
he can do just like Jimmy Carter and make the turn down the thermostat and wear their Mr. Rogers sweaters...


* which of course he will have to borrow money for and leave the bill to our children/grandchildren.

 

[Rightguide]

14th amendment.

Maybe after being high on Hunter's drugs.

 

[iso36]

EMERGENCY! It gets really warm for a couple of weeks EVERY SUMMER!!!

“The dog days or dog days of summer are the hot, sultry days of summer. They were historically the period following the heliacal risingof the star system Sirius (known colloquially as the "Dog Star"), which Hellenistic astrologyconnected with heat, drought, sudden thunderstorms, lethargy, fever, mad dogs, and bad luck. They are now taken to be the hottest, most uncomfortable part of summer in the Northern Hemisphere.”

 

[Kindfarmer]

Biden Has No Right To Declare a National Climate Emergency​

By David Harsanyi​

July 22, 2022


The Washington Post reported Monday night that President Joe Biden is "considering whether to declare a national climate emergency" to "salvage his stalled environmental agenda and satisfy Democrats on Capitol Hill." A few hours later, the Associated Press reported that the administration would "hold off" on the announcement as he, presumably, lays the political groundwork to move forward.

There's no "It's Summer" clause in the Constitution empowering the president to ignore the will of Congress and unilaterally govern when it gets hot. The rejection of the president's "agenda" by the lawmaking branch of government isn't a justification for executive action; it's the opposite. The Senate has unambiguously declined to implement Biden's climate plan.

Though you have to marvel at the utter shamelessness of Democrats, incessantly warning that "democracy" is on the precipice of extinction, now urging the president to act like a petty dictator. It's been less than a month since the Supreme Court rejected the Environmental Protection Agency's claim that bureaucrats could govern without Congress to regulate carbon (which is to say, the entire economy). What makes anyone believe that the president — who, incidentally, just got back from begging Saudi theocrats to pump more oil — is imbued with the power to enact a new regulatory regime or funding by fiat?

We now have senators like Jeff Merkley, who told reporters on Monday that Biden's emergency edict "unchains the president from waiting for Congress to act," openly undermining their oath to the Constitution by attacking the institution they represent. Congress may have spent decades abdicating its responsibilities — which, despite conventional wisdom, isn't to rubber-stamp the Democrats' agenda — but its members rarely advocated openly for executive abuse. I guess they're evolving.

Bloomberg reports that an emergency declaration would "unlock" the president's power to redirect "federal funding to clean-energy construction." When former President Donald Trump enacted an emergency declaration to reallocate funding earmarked for military projects to build a wall on the U.S. southern border — "a clear attempt to circumvent the legislative branch and one that I hope leads to the Supreme Court overturning the abused National Emergencies Act," I wrote at the time, so save your emails — the entire establishment melted down. "Declaring a National Emergency Could Give Trump Authoritarian Powers," a columnist at New York Magazine claimed. "A Win For Trump's Authoritarian Agenda," wrote another in Forbes. And so on. It's worth remembering the border is within the purview of the federal government. Trying to control the weather is not.

More here: https://www.creators.com/read/david...right-to-declare-a-national-climate-emergency

The President has no such authority whatsoever. The Constitution gives him no such authority and the Congress hasn't even pretended to grant him that authority.

it was perfectly fine for Velveeta treasonweasel to do that for a grating, senseless, racist, because we can’t come up with a real policy, wall? But something that is on the verge of killing the entire of Homosapien it’s not allowed? There should be a penalty for that kind of stupid, involving an ax handle…..

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Holy schnieke...I actually thought Not-Vette finally came back with this thread bump...his vay-kay was supposed to be done as soon at the election was over and he's usually diligent about returning.

hope the babadook didn't get him!

 

[oggbashan]

One London borough declared itself 'nuclear-free'.

That was despite the facts that:

1. Hospitals in their area use nuclear products for radiation treatment.

2. Trains carrying nuclear waste travel through their area once a week.

3. A building I was responsible for at the time used nuclear isotopes daily and had signs designating a nuclear hazard which was reported to the council yearly and had been continuing since the 1940s. We even had permission to flush low-hazard nuclear waste into the sewers.

Declarations mean nothing unless they are turned into laws. If that London Borough had tried, they would have been overruled by the UK government, and the use by the hospitals and my organisation would have continued because our practice preceded the law.