Federal emergency
1. What do you think about allowing the President the additional authority to declare a federal emergency without a gubernatorial request?
2. The Posse Comitatus Act prohibits the military from enforcing state laws – does the use of the Department of Defense to aid in the aftermath of hazards violate this long-standing common law?
3. Hurricane Katrina, and more recently Hurricane Sandy, demonstrated major flaws in the government’s ability to handle responses to emergencies. Should the federal government be assigned additional responsibility to manage federal disasters? Can it be assigned such responsibility and power constitutionally? What would such a system look like?
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