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Cato Audio • May 1, 2019 

# Ilya Somin on the National Emergencies Act 

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##### [Ilya Somin](/people/ilya-somin)

Professor of Law, George Mason University, and B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute

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