Democrats could sue if Trump declares national emergency over wall, Hoyer says

rollcall ^ | January 8, 2019

[SMGFan]

Majority leader says technology, more personnel at border would be more effective than barrier

House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer said Democratic leadership has not yet discussed what their reaction would be if President Donald Trump were to follow through on his threat to declare a national emergency on the border to build his wall, but he said a lawsuit is certainly a possibility.

Hoyer reiterated Democrats’ opposition to a border wall and said they’re not really interested in alternative barriers either. He said experts have said neither a wall nor fencing is what’s really needed at the border but rather technology, drones and more personnel. Democrats and Republicans remain at an impasse over border security funding and seem unlikely to reach a compromise soon to reopen the government, which has been partially shut down now for 18 days.

[SMGFan]

Time to see who is the greater communicator Pres Trump or Chuck & Nancy

[marajade]

And how are they going to get more personnel when the Democrats demonize them?

[Yo-Yo]

Not could, will.

They've already said so. I'm sure they'll find a sympathetic court in Hawaii more than willing to issue yet another nationwide injunction from his little district court in Maui.

[BenLurkin]

Inserting a prepare patriot into Hawaii would not be easy either.

[Pearls Before Swine]

This is the most likely sequence of events.

At some point, the President has to tell them to pound sand, he doesn’t accept an injunction on a matter clearly in his set out duties, and will continue work until told otherwise by the Supremes. Even that is an iffy prospect given what Roberts did with Obamacare.

[marajade]

Let them. The executive has broad powers. They should of ran someone other than HRC.

[Gahanna Bob]

....experts have said neither a wall nor fencing is what’s really needed at the border but rather technology, drones and more personnel.

Shouldn’t these experts run for president to get to decide what is needed and what isn’t. How do drones stop illegals transporting drugs into the US unless they have lethal weapons that are used.

[Mouton]

“He said experts have said neither a wall nor fencing is what’s really needed at the border”

Show me the expert who said this and I will show you a jackass liberal dem. See, if Trump had said experts said we need a wall, the press would ask whom they were and would demean them in some fashion. But when this slippery dem says that, no one asks whom said that.

[Col Frank Slade]

Trump is baiting them and drawing them out.

They can’t resist .

Sue it to SCOTUS Hoyer...you lose.

[Wizdum]

Go ahead, Hoyer. Then it will be simpler to paint your party as wanting to protect illegals instead of Americans.

2020 will be a landslide for Trump

[Ikeon]

ignorance and stupidity ought to hurt.MORE!

[Pravious]

Time to see who is the greater communicator Pres Trump or Chuck & Nancy

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If President Trump talks for, say, 9 minutes, does that mean Chuck & Nancy ALSO get 9 minutes - or would the networks consider it impolite to limit their common sense solutions and corrections to the Presidents “lies” and let them go on for a half hour?

[nikos1121]

I think if they block this, and by doing so, he keeps the gov’t shut down, then they lose big. If he is unopposed, starts allocating funds for the wall, re-opens the gov’t, then everyone wins.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Thugs + Judges = Tyranny.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Move all the diseased-ridden illegals and MS-13 members to Steny Hoyer’s district, and put up barriers there to make sure they stay in his district.

[RatRipper]

Steny Hoyer and his ilk effectively murdered Officer Singh, Kate Steinle, the two sick children at the border, and many others. Evil. . .

[shelterguy]

Democrats could sue if Trump.........takes a piss. Or eats. Or breathes. Or...........

[Pollster1]

Border wall Saudi-Iraq

Border fence Greece-Turkey (patrolled)

Border fence Bulgaria-Turkey

Border wall Belfast, Ireland

Border fence Hungary-Serbia (guarded)

Border fence Israel-Egypt

I could go on, but the point is clear. 1. Border walls/fences are normal. 2. Border walls fences help, with an appropriate level of protection for the height/strength of the wall and the level of threat. 3. Given the treason of our political left, we need a border wall that is effective even as a passive barrier, with limited to zero patrol or defense. President Trump needs to make the Wall happen, and the harder the evil thugs on the left fight it, the taller and stronger our duly-elected President and Commander-in-Chief needs to make that Wall.

[DoodleDawg]

Could sue? I can pretty much guarantee that they will sue.

[Bonemaker]

“Democrats could sue if Trump declares national emergency over wall, Hoyer says”

Why not? They do on everything else he does. Just judge-shop for an Obama appointee and voila.