Posted on 01/29/2019 7:12:37 PM PST by 11th_VA
During a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Tuesday, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy John Rood confirmed to Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) that Trump does not need Congress or a national emergency declaration to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The exchange went as follows:
BROOKS: I want to direct your attention to 10 United States Code § 284 which authorizes President Trump to deploy the United States military to the southern border to build fences and to do a lot of other things, and for clarity, if you look it up in the dictionary the word fence includes the word barrier and the word barrier includes walls made of a wide variety of different materials.
So that having been said, it seems to me that 10 U.S. Code § 284 can be used by the President of the United States to direct the United States military to build a wall...
BROOKS: Does 10 U.S.C. § 284 as you understand it, require the declaration of a national emergency before it is implemented?
ROOD: No.
BROOKS: It does not?
ROOD: No.
BROOKS: Has President Trump, to your knowledge, ever used 10 U.S.C § 284 to direct the military to build the wall that is necessary for border security?
ROOD: No, not to my knowledge, Congressman.
BROOKS: If President Trump were to direct the Pentagon and the United States military pursuant to 10 U.S.C § 284 to build such barriers as are necessary to secure our southern border from drug trafficking and international crime cartels would the United States military obey that order?
ROOD: If we judge it to be a lawful order, yes sir. And I assume it would be.
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Short memory there Mariner? Judge stopped him from separating trannies. Has since been overruled but stayed in effect long enough for a few surgeries.
I believe there was an admiral that publicly announced he would not obey an illegal order to launch a nuclear attack. He did not define how he would know the order was illegal but the media took it to mean any such order from Trump would be illegal.
1. Who controls the permission of an oil/gas pipeline to cross the border of Canada and the U.S.? And connect to a pipeline already built in the U.S.? Answer: the President
2. Which branch of government owns the land of military bases on U.S. soil and controls that land? Answer: the Executive branch and its armed service branches.
Mitchell McConnell and hundreds of spineless Republican members of Congress need to slowly and carefully and deliberately bring everyone up to speed, and not leave the President to fight this all on his own.
by the way, POTUS should give a presser in front of Pelosi's house/neighborhood
It’s coming - we just need to be patient and keep supporting President Trump.
The SeaBees will have that damn wall built in record time!!! Lets git her done!!! NOW!!!!
“...Use the military, build the wall, give the Democrats nothing. ...”
Which should be the ONLY option.
Let them rant and scream.
Good news. May President Trump hear this.
The collective democrat blood pressure just really spiked. I think I can hear heads popping.
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