Thread by @TimInHonolulu

1. Congress should consider passing an emergency amendment to the Trading With the Enemy Act that gives @POTUS the power to impose the Act during times like this without going to a full declared state of war. It would allow the complete and permanent seizure of all Russian

2. national property in the US including all intellectual property. The party impacted never gets it back absent buying it from the person to whom the US custodian sells it. I have some knowledge of this power due to my my extended family having been subject to it twice in

3. WWI and WWII. Only recently have they re-acquired their US trademarks. It took over 70 years. All Russian citizens bank and stock holdings would be wiped out in a single moment. They would never get it back. That money becomes our money. Having that power will give us the

4. kind of leverage we need at this critical time. This is the definition that needs to be amended:

-The words “the beginning of the war,” as used herein, shall be deemed to mean midnight ending the day on which Congress has declared or shall declare war or the

5. existence of a state of war.- 50 U.S. Code § 4302(c). Change could sunset if the Russians don't attack Ukraine. @WHNSC @WHCOS @SenSchumer @SpeakerPelosi @WhiteHouse @HouseDemocrats @HouseGOP @SenateDems @SenateGOP @LindseyGrahamSC