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Democrats will introduce legislation Friday to terminate the emergency proclamation and Pelosi is urging House colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support the resolution, according to a letter obtained by POLITICO on Wednesday.
"I write to invite all Members of Congress to cosponsor Congressman Joaquin Castros privileged resolution to terminate this emergency declaration," Pelosi wrote, noting that the House will "move swiftly to pass this bill."
"The Presidents decision to go outside the bounds of the law to try to get what he failed to achieve in the constitutional legislative process violates the Constitution and must be terminated," she added.
Pelosi sent the letter to both Democrats and Republicans on Wednesday night, a rare occurrence that underscores the seriousness with which the speaker plans to try to block Trump's effort to go around Congress and build his border wall.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/20/congress-trump-national-emergency-declaration-1176803
IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)Thank you once again, Madam Speaker.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)he tangled with.
SKKY
(11,811 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)but,the truth needs repeating. And sometimes expanded.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Cha
(297,323 posts)yonder
(9,667 posts)it just warms me up to no end imagining tRumps thoughts: "Look, she's clapping.....for meeeee."
Dem2theMax
(9,651 posts)I got a good laugh out of what you wrote. He's such an idiot, I'm sure he really did think she was clapping FOR him. Too bad he doesn't know 'hand clap language.'
Lonestarblue
(10,011 posts)Were in a national nightmare with Trump as president, but at least we now have at least part of Congress on the side of the rule of lawa nice change from Republicans supporting every idiotic thing Trump wants to do, like selling nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia, the largest exporter of Islamic terrorism in the Middle East.
Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)watoos
(7,142 posts)The House will pass the bill, I think the Senate will pass the bill. I think that Trump will veto the bill.
Will there be enough votes in the House and Senate to override Trump's veto?
I bring this up because it could affect the law suits that are being filed. The SC can very well say that it is not taking up the case, that it is leaving the decision up to Congress.
WeekiWater
(3,259 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)Takket
(21,577 posts)to spare the rethugs and drumpf "embarrassing" votes by abusing his power to kill votes by not bringing them to the floor, but he can't stop this one. And drumpf dug this hole for himself.
2naSalit
(86,647 posts)That's why she's the best person for this at the time.
calimary
(81,322 posts)Marcuse
(7,488 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)and, will Donny be able to veto if it passes the Senate?
scheming daemons
(25,487 posts)johnnyfins
(823 posts)johnnyfins
(823 posts)watoos
(7,142 posts)the law suits are going to the Supreme Court. The SC could refuse to hear the case and leave the decision up to Congress.
bdamomma
(63,875 posts)use those powers you have to end this POS now. He is not above the law.
RainCaster
(10,884 posts)She and her team will be pushing hard to get a veto proof majority for this proclamation. They will get it, not by trading votes, but because it's the right thing to do. Schumer will be doing the same thing in the Senate. There, the challenge will be greater.
pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)"shouldn't have grabbed that carrot", sucker. You deserve everything coming your way.
appleannie1943
(1,303 posts)She knows how to woo both sides and get a job done better than anyone in Congress.
cstanleytech
(26,295 posts)to be the largest bunch of hypocrites that have ever walked the earth if they do not support stopping Trump.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)ever. Not sure they gaf.
cstanleytech
(26,295 posts)against the ones that refuse to vote or vote to let him do it.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)yet his base seem not to waver. Or, at least his numbers always rebound.
I never thought I'd live to see the day when such a blatant corrupt, mendacious imbecile would be our president. I knew Rs were corrupt hypocrites and a lot of Americans were belligerently ignorant, but I guess I underestimated just how bad it was.
Still, I hope you're right that there is a limit to what he can get away with.