Question is: does he have authority to declare emergency to build wall or not.
Sure he does.
The REAL question is, does McConnell have 20 votes in his caucus to remove the President, along with 45 Democrats and two independents?
Obviously, there was more to the meeting between Pence and the GOP caucus than we know at this time. Who said what to whom?
My best guess is that McConnell told Pence, "If Trump declares an emergency to build the wall, tell Karen to order new drapes for the Lincoln bedroom".
It’s my understanding the law allows for him to build the wall without issuing an emergency.
“Question is: does he have authority to declare emergency to build wall or not.”
Doesn’t matter. Are you locked and loaded and ready to go to war against the weenie deep state? The weenie deep state is in your neighborhood, posing as FBI, IRS, Social Security, BLM.
If you don’t have a pro-2nd amendment, constitutional sheriff in your county, I suggest you elect one now.
The war against the fascist pig deep state is imminent.
“Question, Does he have the authority to build the wall or not?
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You decide:
“Through the insidious yet steady encroachment of “emergency powers” the government has now achieved the ability to rule the people by statute or decree, without the vote or the consent of the ruled. Through a maze of political maneuvers, the emergency powers granted to President Roosevelt in 1933 to deal with an economic depression have become part of the US Code as permanent everyday powers.” - source: “Constitution Fact or Fiction” -Dr. Eugene Schroder.
Senate Report 93-549 (1973):
Since March 9, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared national emergency...A majority of the people of the United States have lived all their lives under emergency rule. for 40 years (written in 1973) freedoms and governmental procedures guaranteed by the constitution have, in varying degrees been abridged by laws brought into force by states of National emergency. In the United States, actions taken by government in times of great crisis have...in important ways shaped the present phenomenon of a permanent state of National emergency”.
“These proclamations give force to 470 provisions of federal law. These hundreds of statutes delegate to the President extraordinary powers, ordinarily exercised by Congress, which affect the lives of American citizens in a host of all-encompassing manners. This vast range of powers taken together, confer enough authority to rule this country without reference to normal constitutional process.”