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Control‑F Monarchy Reveals Hidden Executive Powers
- Thompson describes a repeatable Trump playbook: search the legal code for dormant emergency powers and invoke them to expand executive authority.
- He calls it a "control‑F monarchy" and suggests predicting abuses by scanning statutes for emergency grants.
Prepare Legal Defenses Against Emergency Claims
- Thompson urges lawyers and advocates to pre‑prepare legal arguments against likely emergency claims, e.g., Insurrection Act uses in future elections.
- He recommends proactively identifying statutes the administration might weaponize and litigating early.
Anthropic Labeled A Supply Chain Risk To Punish It
- The Trump team labeled Anthropic a supply‑chain risk under Section 3252 after contract talks collapsed, treating a U.S. AI firm like Huawei.
- Thompson sees this as ruling by emergency and a troubling precedent for using esoteric statutes to punish private firms.