Declaring a "national emergency" on climate change is basically what Barry Obama did when he committed the U.S. to the terms of the Paris Climate Accord without Senate ratification.
This is a “manufactured crisis” if there ever was one.
I hope and pray that Trump will build the entire wall by the end of the year. At the very least, he should finish the Wall for Texas and go as far as he can to work around the Obama judges who will try to stop him in California, Arizona, or New Mexico.
Perhaps he could close the border crossings with Mexico and tell them he will reopen the crossings contingent on Mexico building the Wall expeditiously (and keep the border crossings open only if construction starts promptly and continues rapidly). Alternatively, he could send enough military to seal the border, crossing into Mexico (yes, I know that's a big deal) so the illegals cannot whine that they are already on US soil and entitled to demand asylum and to be supported by welfare payments for the decade of processing time on their frivolous claims.
Get back to us when “climate change” falls under the purview of the military and/or law enforcement.
We’ll stop them when the time comes. For now, we are doing what is necessary.
Bret Stephens is an elitist, American hating POS.
“The powers that Trump appropriates for himself now and that Republicans like Mitch McConnell willingly grant him are powers that future Democratic presidents are certainly going to seize using this as a precedent”
GMAFB, you moron, you idiot, you putz!
I would remind these fools: “government by consent of the governed”. Their very words illustrate their desire to punish the American people. I will oppose them to their deaths.
Now that the President is free to use the Intelligence Services to Spy on his Political Opposition, why would there ever BE another Democrat President?
If climate was such an emergency, why didn’t Obambi declare that in 8 years in office?
They already did. It was called the Paris Accord, which was a Treaty that Obama signed Unilaterally.
Hasnt Obama already done that?
I would hate to see the reaction if a Democrat President invoked emergency powers to ban cars or guns. It would be immediate civil war.
I don't think it was wise for Congress to delegate that authority to Presidents, but it did. So it is perfectly reasonable for him to do use that power.
That would be different from an extra-Constitutional climate change power grab that is not authorized by a statute.
Yeah, and what counter measures will be taken upon said declaration?
Immediately cease all non-essential vehicle use?
All air travel?
Liquidate all existing herds of cattle with the biggest freaking 21-day BBQ you ever saw?
Shut down all non-nuclear power plants?
Pass laws preventing volcanic eruptions? And forest fires?
Brett Stephens is a very reasonable sounding dou***bag.
Bret, man made climate change is a hoax. The illegal invasion at the border is reality.
Go suck swamp water, Bret.
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So he’s saying a Democrat President might declare a national emergency because of cow farts?
We’ll be laughing when the demockkkrat POTUS will have to fight off lawsuits from republican governors...
Is he unaware that national emergencies are declared by presidents for various reasons? Heck, a dozen of Barkey’s are still in force. One I know of goes back to Carter, the other worst president. Trump haters are too quick to pounce and look more like fools as a result.
Uh hum, does anyone truly believe that a liberal Democrat President would refrain from using a Declaration of Emergency because Republican Presidents wouldn’t approve? Really? Have we forgotten already how Obamacare was pushed through Congress? And wasn’t it Obama who had 13 National Emergencies?