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"Specifically, the new language adds ‘natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident’ to the list of conditions permitting the President to take over local authority — particularly ‘if domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of maintaining public order.’
Since the administration broadened what constitutes ‘conspiracy’ in its definition of enemy combatants — anyone who ‘has purposely and materially supported hostilities against the United States,’ in the language of the Military Commissions Act (PL 109-366) — critics say it’s a formula for executive branch mischief."
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