Leader McConnell has filed cloture on Executive Calendar #16, Eric D. Miller to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit— Senate Cloakroom (@SenateCloakroom) February 14, 2019
National Emergency:NINTH CIRCUIT UPDATE - Huge news. Cocaine Mitch McConnell (@senatemajldr) has begun the process of confirming one of @realDonaldTrump's nominee's to the NINTH CIRCUIT. Eric Miller, a former Clarence Thomas clerk, is a solid nominee. #MAGA #Winninghttps://t.co/VZAM8T2FWe— Alex Behzade (@ABPatriotWriter) February 14, 2019
A great big LOL at all the doom criers claiming President Trump would cave. https://t.co/vK6WufXtNt— Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) February 14, 2019
He’s signing the bill AND he’s declaring the national emergency. He’s getting the border walk money from BOTH.
And those of you claiming law fare slow walking in the courts to block a national emergency declaration don’t know how anything works, so I’ll just ignore you.— Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) February 14, 2019
I also assume National Emergency overrides any Congressional shenanigans, thus no worries.— Rodney C. Johnson (@Sharrprime) February 14, 2019
Wictor proven right again, when he said "Nobody bothers to learn how anything works."
OK, 48 hour rule is HEREBY INVOKED.
I'm watching the usual MASS PANIC ensue because nobody knows what the President's nat'l emergency powers are vs Dem controlled House trying to block him— Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) February 14, 2019
For once how about people do some research before they listen to TV talking heads insisting they PANIC RIGHT NOW?
Study the powers a President has under a national emergency to, let's say, DESIGNATE FUNDS himself to meet the nat'l emergency where Congress played NO ROLE in it.— Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) February 14, 2019
President Trump: "Uh, yeah, I want this $4 billion from the DOD over here, and this other $5 billion from that agency over there..."
House Dems: "Uh, 'scuse me? We didn't appropriate any of this money for this border security/wall stuff. You can't do that!"— Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) February 14, 2019
House Dems: "And you just SPECIFICALLY SIGNED A BILL we sent up to you *prohibiting* you from spending any $ the US Congress appropriated on this border security stuff!"
Trump: "Yeah great. Explain how it nullifies my appropriation powers under a nat'l emergency declaration."— Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) February 14, 2019
House Dems: "But....but...."
President Trump: "Yeah that's what I thought, losers."— Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) February 14, 2019
Here’s a perfect example of why people should breathe. “National Emergency” funding is NOT included in this bill. Meaning, if he takes funds from other places? This won’t apply. https://t.co/uTsbkGrPs5— Tracybeanz (@tracybeanz) February 14, 2019
Trump can declare a national emergency to build his wall — and that should scare us
Congress has given the president far too much power to declare emergencies
Denied, at least for now, congressional approval for his promised border wall, President Trump has asserted he has “the absolute right” to declare a national emergency, threatening to build the wall by executive fiat. And while the courts will need to sort out whether he can use these powers to work around Congress’s power of the purse, Trump is right that he has immense authority to do just this sort of thing — and Congress is to blame.
The Supreme Court is also partially responsible for neutering the National Emergencies Act. In a 1983 case, the court ruled that a congressional resolution could not override an emergency declaration without the president’s signature. The need to overcome an inevitable veto forces Congress to muster a two-thirds vote in both houses should it ever try to claw its power back under the terms of the National Emergencies Act.
Like the War Powers Resolution, Congress intended this legislation to check the president, but it has had the opposite effect. Most Americans are probably unaware that the United States has lived under a national emergency since the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. Nor has Congress ceased delegating the president substantial emergency powers; a recent Brennan Center for Justice study found 136 emergency statutes, some of which could redirect Defense Department funds and expedite military construction for the wall.
Heh. National Emergency powers are one reason why the SOTH is NOT co-equal with the POTUS.
Thanks for posting those !
(Still catching up....)