My article "I Have Total Authority and that's the way it's going to be" offers an explanation for why he is challenging the Governors in the United States.
May 23 + 6 months = November 19, 16 days after the 2020 Election.
Trump's latest executive order confrontation has nothing to do with a "play" to his base or his religious beliefs, but a warning to the nation's governors that he could "override" any actions they take that interfere with his access to emergency powers.
Let's say the crisis at hand is, say, a nationwide coronavirus pandemic. The president can activate laws that allows the executive branch to take extraordinary action under specified conditions, such as war on the coronavirus and domestic upheaval from a nationwide social distancing and lockdown orders to contain the pandemic, regardless of whether a national emergency has been declared.
During the Eisenhower administration Presidential Emergency Action Documents (PEADS) were put in place to ensure continuity of government in case the Soviets launched a nuclear attack.
Peads are draft executive orders, proclamations, and messages to Congress that are prepared in advance of anticipated emergencies. The Government Peads are kept from the public but the peads drafted from the 1950s through the 1970s were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
The Peads would not only have authorized martial law but suspended habeas corpus, revoke Americans' passports, and allow the roundup and detention of "subversives" identified in an FBI "Security Index."
In 1987, The Miami Herald reported that Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North had worked with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to create a secret contingency plan authorizing "suspension of the Constitution. FEMA would take control of the United States with a declaration of martial law during a national crisis," with the appointment of military commanders to run state and local governments.
The Obama administration's intent to review the Peads has now passed to the Trump administration. It will fall to the attorney general to decide whether to rein in or expand some of the more frightening features of these peads.
Attorney General William Barr will now decide whether to rein in or expand some of the more oppressive features of the Peads.
Trump was destined to lose the election even before he mishandled the virus and the economic meltdown.
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