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Now that rightie media has caught it's breath and recovered from the shock, --republicans have a terrible night, why that's bad for Dems. 

ENEMIES, Foreign and Domestic..........

  The Insurrection Act does not specify an explicit time limit or expiration date for how long a president can invoke the authority. The powers granted to the president under the Act are permanent unless specific legislative action is taken to end a deployment or repeal the Act itself.
The duration of the invocation is essentially at the discretion of the president, who determines whether the situation still constitutes an "insurrection, rebellion, or civil disorder" that makes it "impracticable to enforce" US law "by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings".
Congress has the authority to amend or repeal the Insurrection Act, and bills to limit the president's power have been introduced. However, as of now, no such time limit has been enacted into law. Historically, some initial versions of related legislation, such as the original Militia Acts of

1792, included sunset provisions, but the version of the law that became permanent in 1795 and subsequent versions of the Insurrection Act have not included such limitations.




It's coming.....

 Democrats demand meeting with Trump on shutdown — again
The “blue wave” elections Tuesday night are leaving Democrats emboldened.

Trump blamed shutdown for election losses.

“We write to demand a bipartisan meeting of legislative leaders to end the GOP shutdown of the federal government and decisively address the Republican health care crisis,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries wrote Wednesday in a letter to Trump. Want Thune and Johnson in meeting.

 The letter comes as Democrats are facing their own internal divisions over how to end the record-breaking funding lapse — or if it’s even the right time to stand down without extracting more policy concessions from the GOP.

 Roughly a dozen Senate Democrats are viewed as ready to end the shutdown and turn the party’s focus toward hammering Republicans over health care ahead of a vote to extend expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies following the reopening of government, according to four people granted anonymity to discuss caucus dynamics.

Glad seeing some pushback from Supreme Court in tariff case.


Kavanaugh asks why Trump is the first president to use IEEPA to impose tariffs
Justice Brett Kavanaugh asked the Justice Department why no other president had tried to use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose tariffs.

Solicitor General John Sauer said that tariffs weren't the ideal way to address the emergencies that other presidents declared under the law.

Plus, there’s no question that Trump is by far more comfortable with tariffs as an economic and foreign policy tool than his predecessors, Sauer said.

  'It's a one-way ratchet': Conservative Justice Gorsuch suggests Trump tariffs are overreach
Justice Neil Gorsuch, a Donald Trump appointee, appeared to voice sharp criticism of the administration's arguments about emergency powers.

Gorsuch noted that, because of the president's power to veto congressional legislation, Congress doesn't have much power to rein in the president with new legislation, once Congress has given more power to the president. (Congress needs a two-thirds vote to override a presidential veto.)


That, Gorsuch suggested, is a reason to be skeptical of the administration's position that Congress has ceded over to the executive branch the type of broad emergency powers the president is now invoking.

"What happens when the president simply vetoes legislation to try to take these powers back?" Gorsuch asked. "Congress, as a practical matter in the real world, it can never get that power back."
 
  "It's a one-way ratchet toward the gradual but continual accretion of power in the executive branch and away from the people's elected representatives," Gorsuch added.

"I disagree with that," Trump administration lawyer John Sauer adamantly responded. He said there was a recent example of Congress terminating the COVID-19 emergency.

Gorsuch responded that the president had agreed to that move from Congress.

I am gonna have to go see one.  If I don't feel better tomorrow.  Took all the last of my oxy.  I only had 4 pills left.  Taking flexeril.  Taking ibuprofen.  Taking Tylenol.  It still aches when I try sleep.  It doesn't bother me so much when I am up and about, but I can feel something is off.  🥵  I need to be able to sleep.  I was doing a lot of sh1t yesterday.  I probably did too much.  I can't really sit on my azz for a week.

I warned you about overdoing it but you never listen to me because you're so damn smart... After all what could I have learned in 71 years that you haven't learned already right bubba? 🤪 I suggest you re-up your pain meds and ask for tens not fives...

I do not want to go see the Dr.

Think about how it just makes his whole day to see you though. Don't pass up a chance to make his life better. 😟