(February 15, 2019 at 2:32 pm)Yonadav Wrote:(February 15, 2019 at 2:27 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: 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
It's all just yet another stunt to deflect attention from the fact that he lost the budget battle so badly.
The courts will never permit this to stand. The troops he sent there around Thanksgiving had nothing to do except twiddle their thumbs.
If there were an emergency, they would have had something to do.
They didn't. Trump can't lie his way into a fake emergency.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell
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