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Congress needs to pass a law requiring that any national emergency needs to be confirmed by a super majority of both the house and Senate within 15 calendar days of declaration. Or from 15 days of the passage of this law, whichever is later. An ongoing national emergency must be renewed by Congress before the sixth month of its declaration, but no earlier than it's fifth month. Then on a yearly basis starting from the anniversary of its declaration.
Failing that, all emergency powers the president wields are revoked.
In a true emergency, the assemblage of Congress is not an onerous task. Nor is the vote.
It would take enough Republicans to overrule the presidential veto. But if done would get rid of this regimes use of the magic word "emergency."
No way this Congress is gonna pass a law that might inconvenience the Führer.
Oh I have little hope for it to happen.
I just believe it would be a good law, should we ever get another chance.
Not a bad idea, but I can't help but be pessimistic. It's clearly not an emergency. There's no single event anyone can point to that caused this "emergency" and it wasn't an emergency the first time Trump was president. If Congress won't push back on this at all, why wouldn't they shamelessly vote for a fake emergency like this one?
The supermajority would prevent one party from forcing it, at least how current elections are run.
As it is both the house and Senate tried to push through a resolution to cancel this "economic emergency" but I haven't heard much progress on it in the last week or so.
This basically reverses the current model where they have to vote to end the emergency and makes it so they have to vote to affirm it.