Jonathan Turley on Trump’s emergency declaration: ‘Democrats will lose’ on merits of case

The National Sentinel ^ | 2/17. 19 | Jon Dougherty

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George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley, a noted constitutional expert, explained the difference on Friday between President Barack Obama’s legal case involving lawsuits against Obamacare and President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration.

“They’re using the case where I represented the House of Representatives against Obamacare. And we won. But this is not the same case,” Turley said on “Fox & Friends.

“What President Obama did was order the Treasury essentially to be opened up and to pay insurance companies. That’s a different type of funding.”

“What Trump is going to do is he’s going to use money that was appropriated by Congress. It just doesn’t have these tight conditions on them. That’s Congress’ decision to make. They can appropriate money and not put many conditions on.

“So it’s going to be a different fight,” Turley continued.

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But Turley says Leftist groups and congressional Democrats opposed to the president’s declaration are going to lose on the merits of the case because Congress has already bestowed such powers on the Executive Branch.

I've been waiting for Truley to jump in on some of the current issues... I started fearing he had decided to move to the islands and live well... Glad he's here defending the Constitution ... as he's suppose to do.