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applegrove

(118,600 posts) Fri Jan 4, 2019, 04:53 PM Jan 2019

Trump Threatens To Declare A National Emergency To Build His Wall

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/01/04/trump-threatens-to-declare-a-national-emergency-to-build-his-wall.html

By Jason Easley a Politicus USA

"SNIP.....

Contrary to what Trump and his White House think, the president doesn’t have the unlimited power to declare a national emergency. Trump can only declare a national emergency within the powers granted to him by Congress.

Trump can’t declare an emergency and build his wall. That is now how any of this works. If it was legal to take such action, presidents would be able to act without consulting Congress and would exercise unlimited power.

Trump’s threat is an empty one, but it shows why he has been trying to create a crisis on the border. Trump is looking for more than money for his wall. He is trying to create the pretext for building his wall without congressional authorization. It won’t work, and if Trump tries it, he will quickly lose in federal court.

The president doesn’t have special magical emergency powers that allow him to ignore the Constitution and build his wall, but Trump isn’t beneath trampling the Constitution to make Fox News happy.

.....SNIP"

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Trump Threatens To Declare A National Emergency To Build His Wall (Original Post) applegrove Jan 2019 OP

Go ahead, traitor. dalton99a Jan 2019 #1

I think we need to declare a national emergency Ohiogal Jan 2019 #2

This administration is the literal definition a National Emergency flibbitygiblets Jan 2019 #7

I wish for once he'd put up or shut up. Declare an emergency. It's nuts, he's nuts and maybe it Vinca Jan 2019 #3

I was wondering if I missed these emergency powers in my con law class Gothmog Jan 2019 #4

So sick of this boy king thegoose Jan 2019 #5

Declare away C_U_L8R Jan 2019 #6

dalton99a

(81,442 posts)

1. Go ahead, traitor.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Jan 4, 2019, 04:53 PM

Jan 2019

Ohiogal

(31,967 posts)

2. I think we need to declare a national emergency

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Jan 4, 2019, 04:58 PM

Jan 2019

to remove him from the White House

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)

7. This administration is the literal definition a National Emergency

Reply to Ohiogal (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 4, 2019, 06:24 PM

Jan 2019

Vinca

(50,260 posts)

3. I wish for once he'd put up or shut up. Declare an emergency. It's nuts, he's nuts and maybe it

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Jan 4, 2019, 05:01 PM

Jan 2019

will wake up the insane group of GOP sheep currently in the Congress. Don's spending like a drunk with a handful of stolen credit cards. I thought they were for fiscal responsibility once upon a time.