These days, a day is not a day.
This is what your Republican Representative in Congress has done this week: Because the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C.1622) requires that Congress act within a matter of days on challenges to a presidential declaration of national emergency, rather than undertaking their constitional responsibility to examine, debate, and vote on the validity of the current declaration of national emergency under which the sitting US president has performed allegedly unconstitutional and illegal acts, they have, instead, changed the definition of what constitutes one day.
I'll say it again in a slightly different way: So they do not have to vote on whether a national emergency exists in fact, or whether declaring a state of national emergency is a fictional pretext for violating the Constitution and breaking laws passed by the Congress of the United States and signed into law by US presidents, your Republican Member of Congress has instead voted that a day is not a day.
Here's the text of the bill behind which Republican Members of Congress are hiding their fecklessness and abrogating their lawful, constitutional duties:
SEC. 4. Each day for the remainder of the first session of the 119th Congress shall not constitute a calendar day for purposes of section 202 of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622) with respect to a joint resolution terminating a national emergency declared by the President on February 1, 2025.
Are you OK with this? Does your Member of Congress know what you think?
Sources
https://sgp.fas.org/crs/natsec/R46567.pdf
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R46567
https://rules.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/rules.house.gov/files/documents/bills-119hres_hjres25hr1156hr1968_xml.pdf#page=4
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