Posted on 01/28/2019 8:04:06 AM PST by SeekAndFind
They’ve already flipped Virginia using the same strategy.
Yep, saw WAY worse between 2008 and 2016.
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Can’t find a worse precedent than Precedent Obama.
According to Justice Thomas the circuit courts have no authority to encumber the President once an NE is declared.
And all the experts say the president can use funds available for the wall and other funding to hire more border policing and monitoring equipment.
About time the 9th circuit found out who is the boss.
The court refused to take up DACA and shirked its duty to end that clearly illegal program.
They have not slapped down other actions, either.
Thomas is still in the minority.
Its been done several times before. Not precedent setting at all.
obummer declared or extended 12 national emergencies, so no precedent is required by President Trump for any future demonRAT pResidents.
'Lil marco' rubio is just caving to his puppet masters.
The President is boxed in. He is being blocked at every turn and WILL be stopped by a POS black robed tyrant at the very least beyond 2020 and I do not trust the Supreme Court as it is filled. I have a feeling the “wall” will never come to fruition.
No, the humanitarian crisis on the border is what is setting a new precedent and that is the scariest part of this whole situation.
FREAKIN’ INVADING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS.
I called 3 of Rubio’s offices only one answered the phone
and it was not a staff person available so I had to just leave a message.
Rubio was gang of 8 wanting amnesty for anyone, regardless of whether they had criminal backgrounds. At that time there were 11 million illegals in country. Now according to Harvard there are between 22 and 29 million illegals in country and Rubio still isn’t supporting a wall.
One already did.
God bless you for doing that.
I hope that little worm, Rubio, gets a real good taste of backlash. There are so many Cubans who would be better at representing their constituents than he.
Hopefully, one will emerge before long.
Keep calling, you are calling for all of us.
RE: Would you want a leftist President to have such unchecked power?
This is NOT unchecked power. This is the DUTY of the President -— to secure our borders. If the Commander in Chief cannot use that power FOR THIS PURPOSE, I don’t know what else he can do.
Ask yourself — Is there an invasion? Check. Are drugs pouring in our Southern Border? Check. Is Building a Wall a Defensive Task? Check.
Also, consider this — fifty-eight national emergencies have been declared since 1976, when the National Emergencies Act was signed into law. Thirty-one of these declared emergencies remain in effect.
What’s the problem then? It’s not as if this national emergency is not a national emergency. IT IS !!
I have yet to see a modern Democrat sticking to a process because a Republican did.
I also understand that the southern border is such that it can be exploited by people who want to do us harm.
But...
It's been that way for quite some time now, far longer than this one presidency. If southern border security were such a dire emergency, it should've been Priority One, Day One, when the President had control of Congress. That it wasn't leads me to believe that calling it an "emergency" now is a term of art, or a term of political necessity, rather than a term of any true accuracy.
An "emergency," to this observer, is something tangible and immediate, and unless dealt with swiftly, outside traditional channels of power, poses a disastrous threat to the Republic. A military invasion. A federal reaction to a specific incident of a manmade or natural disaster. These are what I would consider "emergencies," because in plain language, they are.
To this observer, our immigration issues do not rise to his level. Not yet. A large intangible gap between cause and effect still exists between what's happening and what could happen. This relationship, I believe, is similar to AOC's dire warnings about climate change necessitating her Green New Deal bravo sierra before the world ends in twelve years.
For God's sake, reform our immigration law, set up some real security around our southern (and northern) borders - both soft and hard - and get it done. We can't keep on going from manufactured "crisis" to "crisis" around here: governing with your hair constantly on fire is not a good way to govern.
I, for one, would absolutely not trust one of my political opposites in power with this sort of executive gameplay legitimized..."oh, just call it an emergency, and I can do whatever I want." Can you imagine the sierra hotel india tango a President Elizabeth Warren would try to pull?
RE: .”oh, just call it an emergency, and I can do whatever I want.”
Then what’s the point of the National Emergencies Act of 1976 when a justifiable invocation of it is deemed a bad precedent ? When is an Emergency an emergency?
We might as well repeal this act if we’re afraid to use it even when there is justification to do so.
You can’t compare Climate Change with the Swarm of Caravans after Caravans coming our way every month (another is on its way now even as I write this ).
Are tens of millions of illegals, nearly half of them coming from our Southern borders with the ensuing tens of millions of dollars we have to spend feeding, housing, educating and securing them not enough to declare an emergency?
Whereas, the so called Global Warming has been proven to be a non-crisis ( the world’s climate has gone COOLER the past two decades ).
One can be observed EMPIRICALLY, the other is scientifically disputed.
In November 1979 this power was invoked by the Carter administration blocking Iranian government property under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. IT IS STILL IN EFFECT TODAY.
We already have a precedent and that precedent is not even in our borders.
If invocation of this act is justified, IT IS BECAUSE IT NEEDS TO BE.
My rule of thumb on issues like this is “if the Donks were in control would they hesitate to act on their beliefs” and I always realize the answer is no, they wouldn’t. IMHO this is our last, best, chance to build the wall and prevent globalist usurpation of American soverignty and, potentially, civil war.
It would set a Constitutional precedent.
The UniParty cannot have that.
You are correct. Congress can vote
to stop an emergency declaration, or
a landowner can sue if his property
is being seized via eminent domain.
I asked you if you missed the leftist's years of clintoon and obamaroid, both of whom declared more than once a state of emergency.
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