{"id":1687431,"date":"2022-10-13T03:18:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T07:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1687431"},"modified":"2022-10-13T03:18:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T07:18:45","slug":"unending-emergency-powers-enable-authoritarian-behavior-such-as-suspending-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/unending-emergency-powers-enable-authoritarian-behavior-such-as-suspending-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Unending \u2018Emergency Powers\u2019 Enable Authoritarian Behavior Such As Suspending Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Funending-emergency-powers-enable-authoritarian-behavior-such-as-suspending-elections%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1687431&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/49155612877_4f0175db72_k.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s been nearly a month since Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220919173546\/https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/09\/18\/biden-trump-classified-documents-covid\/10422433002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told <\/a>\u201c60 Minutes\u201d \u201cthe pandemic is over,\u201d but the federal government he ostensibly controls is still operating under emergency powers originally <a href=\"https:\/\/trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov\/presidential-actions\/proclamation-declaring-national-emergency-concerning-novel-coronavirus-disease-covid-19-outbreak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declared <\/a>two and a half years ago. The administration <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/09\/19\/hhs-covid-19-coronavirus-public-health-emergency-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told <\/a>The Daily Caller it plans to renew the state of emergency again before its current expiration on Oct. 13.<\/p>\n<p>The White House and news media have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/health\/health-news\/biden-cant-end-the-covid-public-health-emergency-%E2%80%94-his-agenda-is-depending-on-it\/ar-AA126BIN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">made it plain<\/a> that the Biden administration is extending the state of emergency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/enough-backdoor-policymaking-time-end-090158282.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">for political reasons<\/a>, not due to a legitimate emergency. USA Today <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220919172247\/https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/09\/19\/pandemic-is-over-biden-comment-complicates-matters\/10425981002\/?gnt-cfr=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted <\/a>that ending the state of emergency would \u201ccomplicate\u201d government officials\u2019 desire for Americans to take another round of Covid booster shots, as new disclosures show the government <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/p\/attacked-from-all-sides-but-still\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">secretly paid TV entertainers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nclalegal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Joint-Statement-on-Discovery-Disputes-Combined.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pressured social media<\/a> to push its shot narrative and validate billions in government contracts to pharmaceutical companies. The alleged \u201cstate of emergency\u201d is also \u201ckeeping millions of Americans on Medicaid\u201d under expansions approved only for \u201cemergency\u201d purposes. <\/p>\n<p>Democrats also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/17\/joe-biden-public-health-emergency-covid-coronavirus-deadline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">want <\/a>to keep using Covid as an excuse for other wasteful and inflationary \u201cemergency\u201d federal spending on agencies that have demonstrated deep corruption. \u201cAnd Biden\u2019s controversial decision to wipe out student loan debt for millions of Americans rests on the Education Department\u2019s ability to ease hardship in a national emergency,\u201d USA Today says. <\/p>\n<p>Extending the declaration would also mean the United States will be operating under a state of emergency through yet another hotly contested election. The last time that happened, an estimated 14.8 million mail-in ballots <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2021\/08\/19\/15-million-votes-in-2020-election-not-accounted-for-report-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">went missing<\/a> amid widespread vote chaos. Courts largely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/judges-trump-election-lawsuits\/2020\/12\/12\/e3a57224-3a72-11eb-98c4-25dc9f4987e8_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">refused <\/a>to provide any clarity or accountability amid unprecedented charges of mass <a href=\"https:\/\/thefdrlst.wpengine.com\/2021\/09\/27\/arizona-2020-vote-audit-finds-potentially-election-shifting-numbers-of-illegal-ballots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">illegal voting<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/03\/wisconsin-special-counsel-finds-widespread-election-fraud-in-2020-nursing-homes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">election law violations<\/a>, mismanagement, irregularities, and confusion that in several swing states <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2021\/08\/19\/15-million-votes-in-2020-election-not-accounted-for-report-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">extended past<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/07\/09\/new-evidence-indicates-enough-illegal-votes-in-georgia-to-tip-2020-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">entire margin<\/a> of Biden\u2019s claimed victory.<\/p>\n<h2>Permanent Changes During \u2018Emergency\u2019 Rule<\/h2>\n<p>Given a plausible enough excuse and enough government-generated fear among the populace, in 2020 the majority of local, state, and federal elected officials rolled over to leftists\u2019 clearly tactical demands for degrading election integrity. The so-called \u201cemergency\u201d changes to America\u2019s electoral process largely remain in place today, two years after they resulted in massive social strife and widespread distrust in American elections.<\/p>\n<p>States turned election days into election seasons, increasing the ability of targeted get-out-the-vote tactics to affect election outcomes. Swing districts allowed Democrat activist machines to run their election systems and operate Democrat get-out-the-vote operations through public offices. States filled mailboxes with ballots, millions of which went missing (Wisconsin, where I haven\u2019t lived for more than a decade, sent multiple mail-in ballots for me to my previous addresses, according to my family.) <\/p>\n<p>Mail-in balloting <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/12\/03\/were-insecure-voting-processes-this-years-insurance-policy-for-democrats\/\">increases <\/a>ballot error rates to within the margin of many electoral victories, allowing election officials to affect election outcomes by rejecting or accepting votes. Even if every single election official follows every single procedure and every voter fills out his mail-in ballot as accurately as a machine can \u2014 which aren\u2019t realistic assumptions \u2014 conducting elections this way is a recipe for unrest among those ultimately declared the losers in elections that hinge on razor-thin margins. This is why 70 percent of Democrat voters this year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/general_politics\/april_2022\/democrats_still_believe_russia_changed_2016_election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">still agreed<\/a> that Russian interference elected Donald Trump and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/01\/04\/jan-6-democracy-danger-usa-today-suffolk-poll-finds\/9023578002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">majority of Republicans<\/a> polled around the same time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/maddowblog\/year-later-gop-support-big-lie-remarkably-stable-n1286939\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">say <\/a>Joe Biden won in 2020 by cheating.<\/p>\n<p>Covid has been a massively successful excuse for Democrats to seize political power while destroying U.S. infrastructure and our nation\u2019s social fabric. Given how much Democrats have won in just two years making sure this crisis didn\u2019t go to waste, why wouldn\u2019t they keep Americans rolling from one crisis to another, largely of their own making? What incentives do power-mongers have to end not just our technical state of emergency, but to solve any problems whatsoever? Instead, they seem to prefer to keep amplifying crises, because this gives them constant pretexts for abnormal and totalitarian measures. <\/p>\n<h2>Never-Ending Supply of Manufactured Emergencies <\/h2>\n<p>Consider the other national emergencies Biden has exacerbated while in office. Should Biden lose Covid as an excuse for his administration\u2019s lawless and barely restrained exercise of power, he has several other options. One of them would be turning our nation\u2019s proxy war with Russia over Ukraine into a hot war between nuclear powers. Now, that may be a legitimate national emergency, but it wouldn\u2019t be an accidental one.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also the administration\u2019s full-on jettisoning of the U.S. border to control by international criminal cartels that profit from drug and human trafficking in the absence of U.S.-imposed law and order. These cartels, of course, partner with the real top U.S. adversary, Communist China, in destroying our people and national resources while U.S. officials appear to be distracted covering up the Biden family business operations in Ukraine, which is of no national importance to the United States. Neither is providing security for Europe that Europe should provide for itself.<\/p>\n<p>The growth of inflation under Congress\u2019s two-decade refusal to control its own spending while the United States government endangers the dollar and nears a sovereign debt crisis to rival any in world history would be another manufactured emergency available to use to argue for more control by the same people driving this country into the ground. We\u2019ve so far had essentially zero accountability for the use of this technique during Covid. That\u2019s why we should expect it to continue and expand.<\/p>\n<h2>Past Time for Some Serious Checks and Balances<\/h2>\n<p>Like Barack Obama before him and whose administration is essentially back in the White House right now, Biden has been a master of executive overreach, which means authoritarianism restrained only by the desire to keep an increasingly emasculated people from actually revolting. Remember Obama\u2019s \u201cpen and phone\u201d? Biden\u2019s are bigger. <\/p>\n<p>His administration is perfecting, for example, the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/07\/joe-bidens-vaccine-mandate-doesnt-exist-its-just-a-press-release\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Covid-developed technique<\/a> of ruling simply by press release. Multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/25\/biden-admin-k-12-schools-must-put-boys-in-girls-bathrooms-to-get-federal-lunch-money\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">times <\/a>now, this administration has issued some edict without issuing an accompanying regulation that civil rights groups can spend the next 15 years challenging while the regulation is assumed to be law as soon as it\u2019s issued, with no input at all from Americans\u2019 duly elected representatives called Congress. This further delays even that modicum of accountability.<\/p>\n<p>Why wouldn\u2019t someone willing to suspend some laws \u2014 such as those requiring individuals to pay their own way through college, as they promised \u2014 also be willing to suspend other laws? Why wouldn\u2019t someone willing to break some norms, such as nominating a Supreme Court justice who knows jack squat about the Constitution, not be willing to break others, such as never suspending elections?<\/p>\n<p>Why wouldn\u2019t someone willing to lie about what constitutes a \u201cnational emergency\u201d for political gain be willing to do the same thing in another way? There is no logical endpoint to this kind of behavior. It could include anything, even something that sounds crazy like suspending elections over a drummed-up \u201cnational emergency.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>If you think that\u2019s ridiculous, think back three years to what you\u2019d have said if someone told you that government \u2014 including \u201cfreedom-touting\u201d Republican governors! \u2014 would ban kids from going to schools for months, even years, over a virus that was less risky to them than the seasonal flu. The wild political effectiveness of inflating the \u201cCovid emergency\u201d beyond all reason is why pushing society\u2019s limits in previously unthinkable ways is going to continue until American leaders start actually standing up for the rule of law and imposing some serious limits on executive-branch authoritarianism.<\/p>\n<h2>Dear Legislatures: Rein in Rogue Officials Already<\/h2>\n<p>That means every single \u201cemergency powers\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/94th-congress\/house-bill\/3884\/text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statute <\/a>in this country needs to be definitively time-limited, immediately. If presidents and governors can suspend Americans\u2019 rights indefinitely, with no limiting principle, and courts won\u2019t stop them, <em>then we have no rights<\/em>. Rights secured only at the whim of the executive and after years of delay are not rights at all.<\/p>\n<p>Know what living under unrestrained executive orders is called? Tyranny. Tyrants do whatever they can get away with. So far, that\u2019s been working out pretty blooming well for whoever\u2019s really in charge of Joseph R. Biden. The question is, what <em>else<\/em> do they think they can get away with? And what prudent and credible steps are Republicans planning to stop them?<\/p>\n<p>What I\u2019m going to do is this: If at any point we don\u2019t have elections, I\u2019m not filing my taxes. Go ahead, raid me over it. The more Americans decide that the federal government is full of lawless thugs, the better. Maybe at some point more conservative officeholders will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/state-ags-warn-garland-prosecuting-child-transition-surgery-critics-stand-down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">start doing something<\/a> about federal raids on people peacefully protesting tyranny. Good luck raiding me when I\u2019m one of 100,000 people doing the exact same thing in localities protected by increasingly uncooperative sheriffs, attorneys general, and state legislatures. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Joy Pullmann is executive editor of The Federalist, a happy wife, and the mother of six children. <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/iX1dsZnedpJjPMoP7\">Sign up here to get early access<\/a> to her next ebook, &#8220;101 Strategies For Living Well Amid Inflation.&#8221; Her bestselling ebook is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/R1JL\">Classic Books for Young Children<\/a>.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Pullmann identifies as native American and gender natural. She is also the author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Education-Invasion-Parents-Control-American\/dp\/1594038813\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1486730068&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=education+invasion\">The Education Invasion: How Common Core Fights Parents for Control of American Kids<\/a>,&#8221; from Encounter Books. In 2013-14 she won a Robert Novak journalism fellowship for in-depth reporting on Common Core national education mandates. <\/p>\n<p>Joy is a grateful graduate of the Hillsdale College honors and journalism programs.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been nearly a month since Joe Biden told \u201c60 Minutes\u201d \u201cthe pandemic is over,\u201d but the federal government he ostensibly controls is still operating under emergency powers originally declared<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":519,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1687431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}