Posted on 01/06/2019 3:19:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
What authorities are in the National Emergencies Act that prescribe a President can enact an emergency excluding war?
But the fundamental role of the US president is to execute policy, not to determine policy. Congress determines policy.
Never forget that Trump is different and a patriot.
Keep pushing him and find out!
No question that the Dems would file suits in courts of liberal judges who rule only on their political bias. However, since no Dem (politician or judge) knows squat about the Constitution, I’d say every one that says Trump doesn’t have the legal and Constitutional authority is wrong.
Are these the same Democrats that doubted Trump could beat Hillary?
He can ignore the courts as well, as past presidents have done.
He can also stop funding those courts.
Watch him.
First they have to accomplish Post #4,
More like “Hold my Diet Coke.”
History needs to be taught again. Lawsuits? Judges? Overruling of the President in time of national emergency? ‘Fools need to read about Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War.
“where is the emergency”
I think that Trump can make a very good case for an emergency here, and everyone knows it. Indeed a better case than for any of the foreign interventions.
It also would be very difficult for a judge or the SC to appropriate the power and make the determination as to what constitutes a national defense emergency. The precedent set by a judge or SCOTUS that appropriates such power would be catastrophic.
> Well within his powers. <
I don’t disagree with either of you. A solid case can be made that Trump has the power to declare a national emergency to build the wall. And I would be happy if he did so!
But he would be doing so without the explicit approval of Congress. Maybe that explicit approval is not necessary. But it would set a dangerous precedent.
Because the next Democrat president could then say, “Global warming is a real threat! So I declare a national emergency. And I’ll be making major changes on my own. I will not wait for the approval of Congress.”
Build the wall 20 feet inside Mexico = no legal problems
Inquiring minds want to know.
They've already done it, with regard to the immigration bans of 2017. And it is catastrophic.
Not exactly. The immigration bans were not a national defense emergency. A judge over-ruling a troop deployment by defining what constutes a national emergency would be unprecedented.
This would give the judicial branch a veto over the CIC’s power. It would also mean that the judiciary would need to review every troop deployment and determine whether such a deployment would constitute an emergency.
Obamacare passed both houses of Congress and was signed by the President. Suppose Obamacare had been defeated in the Hose, but President Obama declared that the unaffordabilty of healthcare was a "national emergency" and instituted single-payer healthcare by Executive Order. Do you think the courts could have intervened?
Annual U.S. trade with Mexico exceeds 600 Billion dollars. If that were all immediately halted, it would make the Great Depression look like a picnic.
“They’d ignite a world war if they thought it would hurt his approval rating.”
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Interesting that you should make this point.
Mentally-ill demon rat billionaire and presidential candidate Tom Steyer has said a nuclear war would be a good thing because it would get rid of Donald Trump.
Steyer is insane. What does he think such a war would do his precious environment, and to his home state of California? California would be engulfed in radio-active flames and would never recover. Large parts of America would suffer the safe fate.
Safe fate should be “same fate.”
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