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The Nation posted an article by Elie Mistal which is, I think, intended to roust the indignation of its readers against this not real emergency. Mistal sketches 3 scenarios to thwart execution of Trmp's proclamation. Two of these involve litigation. The third is congressional "termination". Hold that thought: US constitutional case law affirms immediate effect of presidential proclamation. Hitch that wagon to two horses --Patriot Act and re-authorizations, including extraordinary powers delegated to the executive branch by US Congress since 2002, and the bottomless DOD budget harnessed with EOs.

I'm 99% certain litigation will go no where, except to stay pending judgment (in the popular imagination) which will ultimately rule in favor of the POTUS inter alia. Furthermore, in arguing against Trump pretext Mistal includes a link to CNN collation of proclamations in xer estimation "--which, again, are stupid--". Mistal declines to explore eminent domain orders, of course.
Trump's wall would be the 32nd active national emergency, illustrated

In fact, the US has been in a perpetual state of declared national emergency for four decades, and the country is currently under 31 concurrent states of emergency about a spectrum of international issues around the globe, according to a CNN review of documents from the Congressional Research Service and the Federal Register.
Adam Schiff, Mueller's puppet master, is an incompetent reader of US history and case law. For example, the Emancipation Proclamation (which proceeded from a series of controversial congressional acts confiscating "enemy" private property) has no relation to Youngstown (1952) union-busting or to oblique definitions of "national security" and "national interest" measures funding the GWOT which the US Congress has indeed endorsed with unanimity.
House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff told CNN's Jake Tapper [!] on "State of the Union" on Sunday that Trump doesn't have the authority to declare an emergency. "If Harry Truman couldn't nationalize [sic] the steel industry during wartime [sic], this President doesn't have the power to declare an emergency and build a multibillion-dollar wall on the border. So, that's a nonstarter."
The salient point in this exercise is, a whole lot of Americans have no idea what they've got themselves into. That ignorance is as much a problem for the "union" as is the absence of any coherent goal besides the benjamins and Anyone Buttrump executing legislation by feckless sessions of Congress that they have install.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
by Cat on Sat Feb 16th, 2019 at 02:53:47 PM EST
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Between bi-partisan purges of "commies" fed gov and "pinko" in every civic organization they could haul into a hearing, Taft-Hartley Act (1947) and the Youngstown (1952) gamble to enforce it retarded the market power of workers, organized "resistance" to domination of labor by capital in USA for generations to come.

All was not well when the GIs returned. Industrial action in USA during the so-called golden age of TV in the 50s is nearly lost to history.

Here's where the millenials are today, ostensibly led by "progressive" flights of fancy from a trench across the "developed" nations.

UNION MEMBERS -- 2018   The union membership rate--the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of unions--was 10.5 percent in 2018, down by 0.2 percentage point from 2017, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions, at 14.7 million in 2018, was little changed from 2017. In 1983 [REAGAN admin!], the first year for which comparable union data are available, the union membership rate was 20.1 percent and there were 17.7 million union workers. ...


Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
by Cat on Sun Feb 17th, 2019 at 04:07:25 AM EST
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"Green New Deal"
H. Res 109, Ocasio-Cortez (not a legislative draft)
S. Res 50, Markey (not a legislative draft)

The Real Deal
H.J.Res. 31 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019, enrolled and awaiting signature

DIVISION A--DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2019 : please make a note of it, if ever you wonder where Trump will get $$$ to construct walls.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Sun Feb 17th, 2019 at 04:21:25 AM EST
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Statistics are skewed because many union employees work for federal, state, and local government.
by asdf on Tue Feb 26th, 2019 at 01:13:01 AM EST
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In 2018, 7.2 million employees in the public sector belonged to a union, compared with 7.6 million workers in the private sector. Union membership rates for both public-sector and private-sector workers edged down in 2018. The unionization rate in the [119M total] private sector (6.4 percent) remained substantially below that for [21M total] public-sector workers (33.9 percent). Within the public sector, the union membership rate was highest in local government (40.3 percent), which employs many workers in heavily unionized occupations, such as police officers, firefighters, and teachers. Private-sector industries with high unionization rates included utilities (20.1 percent), transportation and warehousing (16.7 percent), and telecommunications (15.4 percent). Low unionization rates occurred in finance (1.3 percent), food services and drinking places (1.3 percent), and professional and technical services (1.5 percent). (See table 3.)
BLS union figures supposedly include P/T and "covered" contract employees in both sectors; guessing here that ag sector is not joined with "private" sector. Note discrepancy between imputed 2018 total non-farm and published estimates for 2018. The Employment Situation for February 2019 is scheduled to be released on March 8, 2019.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
by Cat on Tue Feb 26th, 2019 at 02:03:06 AM EST
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