RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread
February 15, 2019 at 2:32 pm
(This post was last modified: February 15, 2019 at 2:55 pm by Yonadav.)
(February 15, 2019 at 2:27 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(February 14, 2019 at 6:41 pm)Yonadav Wrote: It looks like Trump is going to declare his damned national emergency. Here's to hoping that it backfires on him horribly.
So a Democrat could declare climate change and gun controls emergencies. And they would be right.
Yep. It sets a precedent for any president to do anything that they want. But there might not be many more presidents if Trump manages to do this end run around the system of checks and balances to give himself unilateral power to do whatever he wants.
Vox has published an excellent write up of legal opinions about Trump's national emergency declaration:
https://www.vox.com/2019/2/15/18225359/t...act-border
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