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Randy Barnett, who is often on the vanguard of the conservative legal agenda, recently tweeted that banning nongovernmental organizations “must be the new constitutional crusade to preserve our republican form of government.”

Can this wartime authority be invoked during a time of peace and against a nongovernmental entity?

The Republican antitrust threats “certainly have set back climate finance campaigns in the U.S.” and have “had a major impact” on the net-zero landscape, said Patrick McCully, a senior analyst for Reclaim Finance, a nongovernmental organization that advocates for a more sustainable banking sector.

The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition, a group of nongovernmental organizations and policy institutes working to protect the deep sea, reports that over 30 countries have called for a moratorium or a precautionary pause on deep-seabed mining.

Expect poverty; expect the financial starvation of universities and of nongovernmental organizations; and expect unannounced raids, unreliable data and an America increasingly aligned with authoritarians worldwide.