White House lawyers prepping legal justification for national emergency
Source: CNN
2 hr 25 min ago
From CNN's Kevin Liptak
Part of the White House counsel's office review of declaring a national emergency has included laying the groundwork for a legal defense of the move, according to officials familiar with the matter.
That has included advising the President's aides on ramping up talk of the humanitarian and security "crisis" a characterization that administration lawyers could use later in court to defend a national emergency. The lawyers have suggested the more times the term is used, the more citations they will have in filing a legal defense. Trump and others in the White House began using that term more frequently over the past week.
The lawyers are looking for other ways to illustrate that an emergency is underway, recognizing a declaration would be challenged by Democrats. That has also included hosting lawmakers in the Situation Room for talks, a setting that lends to the sense of crisis.
The counsel's office review of the emergency powers as it relates to the border began in the middle of last week, officials said. Trump said today his legal team has told him he has the "absolute right" to declare an emergency.
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Botany
(70,589 posts)No, the national emergency is that Trump is President because of his collusion with a hostile
foreign power, manipulation of our elections, and the GOP/media that went right along with
this coup.
Trump is the national emergency.
RockRaven
(15,012 posts)in this case for political purposes, Congress has an absolute right AND duty to impeach and remove the scumbag.
If he declares a national emergency, someone in the House should introduce articles of impeachment immediately solely based on this episode.
sprinkleeninow
(20,264 posts)cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)because the power of the purse does not sit with the President.
If it did then the next Democratic President could use it to institute medicare for everyone under the claim that there is a national healthcare crisis.
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)benld74
(9,910 posts)TomCADem
(17,390 posts)Also, even if Trump loses in the courts below, the Supreme Court May go along with it with two Trump lackeys. At minimum, you will have Kavanaugh bending over backwards to support Trump.
C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)Phony to the very core. There is no emergency.
elleng
(131,138 posts)'Arrests of people trying to cross illegally into the U.S. from Mexico plunged to the lowest level since 1971, as fewer people attempted the trek, the Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday.
Meanwhile, immigration arrests in the interior of the country increased by 25 percent, the data show.'
https://www.npr.org/2017/12/05/568546381/arrests-for-illegal-border-crossings-hit-46-year-low?
Botany
(70,589 posts).... @ his golf courses, restaurants, hotels, and construction sites?
BTW nice post.
Hundreds, I suspect.
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)many decades by employers for the average worker that the pay now is not as good as it used to be where as pay in other countries has continued to gradually rise.
In other words the Repugnants are closer to getting their dream of turning this country into a third world nation.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)How trump hires illegals, gives them fake green cards, yet claims its a crisis. Also , he doesn't do background checks, and has no idea who they are but hires them at probably all his businesses in this country. His phony crisis act isn't going to work.
EleanorR
(2,395 posts)If there is a crisis, why didn't they go nuclear and vote for the wall? Eh, McConnell? Seems republicans did not, and do not, believe there's a crisis.
JudyM
(29,280 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)WH lawyers are for shit.e.g.Rudi
sprinkleeninow
(20,264 posts)A: He's been feeling down in the dumps.
orangecrush
(19,624 posts)The new Democrats are preparing for this as well.
area51
(11,923 posts)but it's the 45k people dying every year due to lack of healthcare (see sig line), not a bogus immigration "crisis" like Donald likes to claim.
Maxheader
(4,374 posts)The very fact it is taking so much of the white house attorneys time to get a legal declaration of what an emergency is...tends to nullify
that very declaration...No basis, no need..
muriel_volestrangler
(101,368 posts)Speaking at a cabinet meeting over the government shutdown and the border wall, Trump said: What were not looking to do right now is national emergency.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2019/jan/11/trump-government-shutdown-democrats-congress-latest-live?page=with:block-5c38f80ce4b0cebe761849ec#block-5c38f80ce4b0cebe761849ec
The TV speech, the 'will he/won't he' "emergency", the visit to the area - all designed to make him look like someone who takes decisions. It would fit in with an episode of The Apprentice. The media ought to ignore anything that's just a statement from him, because it means fuck all.