Posted on 01/14/2019 8:13:47 AM PST by Moseley
Would a declaration of an emergency to build a border wall create a bad precedent? At the end of the last week, much of the political discussion here in Washington, D.C. in talk shows, statements from Congressmen and in conservative publications focused on warnings of how a future Democrat President might abuse a similar process to push left-wing policies.
If Trump can declare an emergency to build the border wall, could a future Democrat President Chelsea Clinton declare an emergency and take people’s guns or force or enact legislation to fight the myth of man-made climate change. No, “that’s not how any of this works.”
These concerns are understandable but misinformed. Those raising concerns really have not investigated what is involved.
Those who generally talk the Republican party out of actually winning year after year raise fears of legislative action by a Democrat president. There is nothing in the National Emergencies Act of 1976, declaring emergency, or anything that President Trump and supporters are suggesting that relates in any way to creating legislation. That is why President Barack Hussein Obama acted illegally by expanding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). That was a legislative change.
With the border wall, Trump will merely be spending money on a border wall that Congress has already voted to build and which is mandatory under existing statutes. A president cannot create new legislative policy.
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Precedent is meaningless. Democrats always do whatever they want when they are in power regardless of what Republicans have done or refrained from doing.
It would set a dangerous precedent but we are in perilous times.
It’s not TRUMP’S border wall, it’s THE PEOPLE’S border wall. It’s one of the reasons we elected him.
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