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Yesterday — 4 September 2025Main stream

How Trump Exploits Emergency Declarations to Expand Presidential Power

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Adam B. Kushner
4 September 2025 at 18:18
We catalog the president’s emergencies to explore how he is using them to remake the government.

© Alex Kent for The New York Times

National Guard members in Washington on Tuesday.

Can Trump Just Do Whatever He Wants by Declaring Emergencies?

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Adam B. Kushner
4 September 2025 at 23:36
He’s exploiting a diabolical problem in our legal system to expand presidential power.

© Alex Kent for The New York Times

President Trump declared an emergency in Washington D.C. to deploy National Guard and federal agents to patrol the streets.
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