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April 28, 2025

How the President Is Misusing Emergency Powers To Impose Worldwide Tariffs

Elizabeth Goitein Brennan Center for Justice

Concocting an emergency to advance economic and foreign policy goals is an abuse of power.

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February 19, 2020

Afterlives of the Emergency

Divya Subramanian Dissent Magazine

Responding to widespread popular discontent, Indira Gandhi marshaled the powers of the Constitution to suspend the rule of law. Her actions anticipated the crisis of democracy in India today.

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