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Mayor Adams wants Gov. Hochul to use an executive order to force communities outside of New York City to take in migrants and give the Big Apple $6.5 billion, according to a bombshell legal filing in Manhattan Supreme Court on Wednesday. Hizzoner went so far as to recommend several state-controlled locations for new temporary shelters in Brentwood, Newburgh, King Parks, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island. “The scale of the crisis … demands State leadership of a statewide solution,” wrote NYC’s Law Department. The extensive list includes the Pilgrim Psychiatric Facility, Kings Park Psychiatric Center, the Stewart Air National Guard Base,...

The people of Pennsylvania have spoken and GOP lawmakers say it proves a majority of them thought the governor’s powers needed to be clipped when it comes to emergency disaster declarations. With 73% of precincts reporting and more than 2 million ballots cast, the two constitutional amendments won voter ratification, collecting almost 54% of the vote. One amendment ends a governor’s emergency disaster declaration after 21 days – from the current 90 days which can be renewed indefinitely. And it would be up to the General Assembly to decide whether to extend it. A second gives lawmakers the sole authority...

Rep. Alcee L. Hastings, D-Fla., has introduced to the House of Representatives a new bill, H.R. 645, calling for the secretary of homeland security to establish no fewer than six national emergency centers for corralling civilians on military installations. The proposed bill, which has received little mainstream media attention, appears designed to create the type of detention center that those concerned about use of the military in domestic affairs fear could be used as concentration camps for political dissidents, such as occurred in Nazi Germany. The bill also appears to expand the president's emergency power, much as the executive order...