hour: “Over the decades, the book has included established orders to end habeas corpus, the ancient foundational principle that allows arrested people to appear before judges, puts parts of the country under military control, imposes martial law, and blocks Americans from entering the country. Included. Overseas travel, communication restrictions… “When Donald Trump was in the Oval Office, his national security staff actively worked to prevent him from fully learning this interpretation of presidential power, fearing that he would abuse it.”
“Now some of Trump’s former advisers are raising warnings that Trump risks approaching the doomsday book in a second term. Former officials, including Mark Harvey, who oversaw the Doomsday Book on Trump’s National Security Council, and Miles Taylor, Trump’s former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, said Trump had fallen far short. There are concerns that the authority will be used. It was drafted to resolve the crisis.”
“Trump has a history of testing the limits of presidential power, and his second term will be free from many of the guardrails that limited his first term.”
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