“Emergency” is the cheat code written into many laws to circumvent ordinary procedural requirements or limits. Would you like it better if they were forced to call it “exigent circumstances” instead?

Maybe we should enumerate the types of emergencies it applies to so there’s a limit beyond a gentleman’s agreement.

Fake it till you make it (a genuine emergency, that is)

Emergency of convenience?

Or a Reichstag fire Emergency? The Reichstag fire was Hitler's pretext for declaring the national emergency that ended democracy during his reign.

Mussolini did it earlier in 1922 but the pretext was more vague. So perhaps just a Mussolini emergency?