Posted on 02/16/2019 10:33:44 AM PST by SleeperCatcher
In a lengthy tweet storm, Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) laid out his case as to why he believes that POTUS Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency along the U.S.-Mexico border was not just inappropriate but unconstitutional as well.
He begins:
“A thread on national emergencies and our Constitution:
Congress makes laws. The president executes laws. The Supreme Court decides cases.
This is our constitutional system.
Congress cannot delegate legislative powers to the president by statute.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thenationalsentinel.com ...
“Do what he say, do what he say!”
Good post. Congress doesn’t even read much less write the legislation they pass in their names. And as you mentioned, creating all the unconstitutional regulatory agencies which legislate outside the bounds of congress.
It’s a mess
“Note none of our brave “conservatives” in the Senate blew the whistle on the latest dark of night ambush McConnell set up for POTUS.”
Staggering...
one committee with two subcommittees... the subs have to draw their members from the main committee
Not just SHUT UP.
STFU!
Great post!
Serious question: With perhaps the excepting of Rand Paul, who are the “brave conservatives” in the Senate?
Amash can cram it. Hard and deep. Executive branch is charged with protecting the citizenry. DJT is doing his job.
Amash is failing to do hers.
And all the Paul Ryan republicans who sat on their ass for two years are to blame for not having the wall built already. Not PDJT.
We’re at this point because of essentially one man and his underlings
Feel good Catholic illegals loving Paul Ryan
With no term limits we get some turnover.
With term limits we’d get zero turnover.
Well, apart from the regularly scheduled changing of the name plaque on the door.
Thank you. The legislative branch has 3 remedies IF a president ever abuses his lawful executive powers:
1. Change the law. Since the president has veto power, this implies they must have a veto-proof majority support for such legislation. (Current law provides for a wall / barrier on our southern border.)
2. Change the executive powers provided for in the Constitution by amending it. This also requires more than a simple majority.
3. Convict and impeach such a president for committing high crimes and misdemeanors if he has done so. A simple majority cannot do this either.
Asking the courts to take over the duties of the president to execute his office is NOT a lawful or constitutional remedy even IF a president abuses his power.
The courts may have jurisdiction over some minor aspects of border security, such as the fair compensation to landowners when land is taken for federal use. If a citizen or lawful resident is arrested for a crime in conjunction with border security enforcement, the courts insure things like the right to a speedy trial and reasonable bail. And unfortunately, due to the criminal stupidity of our legislators, the courts have some jurisdiction over what happens to those who illegally cross our borders and are apprehended by border security while doing so.
But the bottom line is there MUST always be a remedy. The courts and the legislature can not lawfully or constitutionally prevent the president from exercising his sworn duties.
In my opinion, the president’s Constitutional authority to protect the nation is so great that it should supersede any legislative act that grants the right to asylum hearings to illegal border crossers. Further, when such laws cause the president to be hamstrung in terms of budget or logistics, he should have wide latitude to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to protect the nation.
This being so means that the president should have the power to order border security and the military to immediately deport illegal border crossers or force them back across the border where they came from. They can wait in line for asylum hearings OUTSIDE of our country. It is not our duty to allow unvetted migrants to enter our country or to provide for an unlimited number of them. If Congress demands to provide for them, Congress must allocate the funds to do so. When those funds run out, the president cannot simply stop doing his job to protect the nation.
I agree, wholeheartedly. And then there's 8 U.S. Code § 1182, entitled “Inadmissible aliens,”:(Not that he needs Congress' permission)
Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by President Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate. Whenever the Attorney General finds that a commercial airline has failed to comply with regulations of the Attorney General relating to requirements of airlines for the detection of fraudulent documents used by passengers traveling to the United States (including the training of personnel in such detection), the Attorney General may suspend the entry of some or all aliens transported to the United States by such airline
They’re part of the festering Swamp; our enemy. Plain and simple.
Makes no sense.
With term limits we get 100% turnover.
Without turnover the potential is for 0% turnover.
Gutless losers!
What is with these repub losers? Words like capon, gelding, castrato, quisling, weak sister, spineless, dishonest, duplicitous, insincere, smarmy, collaborator, deceitful, shady, fraudulent, spurious and unreliable come to mind. Pathetic weaklings.
There is absolutely not one other person in this country who could do a better job than President Trump. Not one!
You either trust our Donald or you bend over and kiss your rear and this country goodbye.
I agree: SHUT UP, you worthless cowardly RINOS! Trump is the best thing to happen to our country since Ronald Reagan. Just STFU!!!
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