“Stroke of the pen, law of the land.”
It wasn’t a Republican who said that.
to those who say that declaring a state of emergency will be useless because it will be blocked in the courts, Mark Levin has a powerful argument against this perspective. He said this:
” Then I hear it said, look, the courts will block the President. Since when do presidents refuse to take action in anticipation of a court telling them no? Of anticipation of an Obama court telling them no. A President has his responsibilities and let the chips fall where they may in the federal courts, depending on which court it winds up with and so forth. Why? Because these people want to be able to tell you that they told you that the court would say no. Of course, these district courts will say no. That’s not where the battle is.
It’s in the Supreme Court. And many of these people have already told you we’ve got a great court now that we’ve got these two men on there. Kavanaugh and Gorsuch. Well, let’s see. But you don’t surrender in advance in anticipation of a loss. You don’t fight military battles that way. You don’t fight political battles that way. And you don’t conduct your presidency that way. Well this could take a lot of time. Well so what? The president can’t control that. The status quo on the border is the status quo on the border. In the mean time you’re fighting to try and secure that border.”
Would you want a leftist President to have such unchecked power?
who cares we are losing the country, whatever it takes
The more they fight it, the more Democrats and RINOs prove themselves to be lawless supporters of criminals who want America to be overrun and destroyed. How many Americans really support that view? Some, but not most.
No. Next question.
JoMa
There are approximately 30 active National Emergencies. I believe Obama declared 13.
Everything Obama did for eight years set a bad precedent.
Fact of the matter is, we’re stuck with it.
60,000 dying every year from the drug poison coming directly from south of the border, a great deal of those deaths young adults and teens. That’s 20 Sept. 11 attacks every year or almost 2 happening every month. Remember when just one happened? What did GW Bush do? Oh that’s right: He declared a state of emergency........
https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010914-4.html
"Why if we do it the democrats will too!"
So we played nice, like good little boys.
And the moment they controlled the Senate and White House, (which happened in part because we did not appoint the judges that we should have) guess what they did?
Yep.
No because there is one.
All of this judge talk is also gorilla chest beating. Let push come to shove. War is necessary sometimes.
No worse a precedent than the Democrats claiming any Republican winning the presidency will be impeached for no reason.
Might as well do it because when the Dems get in power again they will lead off with the global warming emergency declaration and then pitch the filibuster rules to impose their warped ideology on us all. Republicans, for the most part and with some notable exceptions, have something called honor and respect for law and tradition. The Dems hate this country and seek to turn it into the socialist nirvana they dream about. They won’t give a rats behind that the republicans held back from the emergency declaration and are probably laughing their asses off about it.
I like Mark Levin but he missed the point. If POTUS does declare the emergency it gets immediately stopped by the 9th circus. It isn’t about fear of a court action it is about getting the border secured. If his declaration gets tied up in court the border remains open as it is now so nothing gets done. Even if the SCOTUS rules in favor there is another few hundred thousand undocumented democrats in our country getting automatically registered to vote when they get a drivers license. That is the Dems master plan and it isn’t far from becoming reality
If President Trump DOESN’T declare a state of emergency, then future Democrat Presidents won’t either to achieve their goals?
Right.
No, because it wasn’t for lack of trying on President Trump’s part.
He’d be doing it as a last resort, not a first one.
What questions these idiots fail to address or even contemplate is....Since when has “precedent” EVER stopped the left from doing anything???
If I remember correctly, wasn’t the US under some “State of Emergency” for years when the USSR was still a threat?
It gave the President almost dictatorial powers to use at that time.
I remember reading that some radicals in the USA stayed within a certain distance of the Canadian border in case the President invoked theses powers as they then planned to make a dash for the border.
GWB should have declared a national emergency 24 hours after Obama won the 2008 general election.
I think it is what congress really wants. It gets them out of making this decision, they get to all blame Trump, and then they let Trump and likely 9th Circuit duke it out.