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  • DeSantis used his emergency powers to get ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ built

    Elena Chachko, a law professor at UC Berkeley Law School, said that both Trump and Biden employed emergency power in broad and ambitious ways. When it comes to the president’s power, Chachko said the court is typically a check on the executive branch.

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    Opinion: A stunning and tragic Supreme Court decision

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    “The Supreme Court on Friday dealt a grievous blow to separation of powers by holding that federal courts cannot issue nationwide injunctions to halt unconstitutional actions by the president and the federal government,” writes Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.

  • How the next financial crisis starts

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    “Over time you’ll see even more insurance company insolvencies, more insurance price increases and less insurance availability, more mortgage defaults, and falls in asset values and credit freezes; as opposed to a single catastrophic event or events where a bunch of financial institutions nationally go down at once,” said Dave Jones, director Climate Risk Initiative, CLEE. Although, he added, “There is some risk of that as well.”