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Is Donald Trump gonna try to build a wall without approval from Congress?

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Is America on the path to a President using the military to supersede the democratic excise of power?

Donald Trump seems to be planting the idea that there is crisis at the American/Mexican border….

By ALL accounts THAT isn’t reality…

But Trump doesn’t really live most Americans reality….

An actual move to declare an ‘national emergency’ would allow a President Trump to do essentially whatever he wanted about a wall and other things….

It would seem to allow him to do what he has admired other authoritary heads of states to do….

To RULE without opposition….

What will the Republicans in our Congress do?

As the partial government shutdown enters a third week over the funding dispute, Trump has publicly said he would reject any plan that includes less than $5.6 billion for a border wall. The President acknowledged the possibility of using emergency powers to fund the wall during remarks in the Rose Garden on Friday, saying “we can call a national emergency because of the security of our country.”
“I haven’t done it. I may do it,” Trump said. “We can call a national emergency and build it very quickly.”
On several occasions, discussions became combative during presentations by Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. According to the White House official, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi twice cut into Nielsen’s presentations to dismiss DHS statistics on border security as inaccurate.
“I don’t believe your facts,” Pelosi told Nielsen during a meeting Friday, according to a source, who said a similar incident took place during a Wednesday meeting in the White House Situation Room. The Wall Street Journal first reported Pelosi’s remarks.
“In presentations made, they have repeatedly used statistics not supported by fact. They’re trying to cast every single migrant as a terrorist or someone with a violent criminal history. The secretary has proven herself to not be credible on these issues,” a Pelosi aide told CNN.
DHS Press Secretary Tyler Houlton said in response to CNN’s request for comment, “We put the facts and statistics out there publicly and transparently to inform the conversation about the humanitarian crisis at our southern border. It is a shame that some congressional staff want to ignore the facts and ignore this crisis. As always, we stand by to explain these difficult problems to those seeking to better understand the issues and find solutions.”
“How do we even go from there,” a White House official said, referring to the disagreements, as aides to congressional leaders and top administration officials plan to meet again Sunday.
If a national emergency is declared to build the wall, the administration likely will face lawsuits questioning the legality of the move.
“The President’s authority in this area is intended for wars and genuine national emergencies,” Evan Hollander, communications director of the House Appropriations Committee, told CNN. “Asserting this authority to build a wasteful wall is legally dubious and would likely invite a court challenge.”…..
Note….
WTF is Republican US Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell gonna ‘man up’?

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  1. A legal challenge would no doubt be based in part on Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. vs Sawyer (1952), in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Truman could not use his emergency powers during the Korean War to Federalize a private company in order to end a steel strike.

    https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/343/579.html

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youngstown_Sheet_%26_Tube_Co._v._Sawyer

    Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 (1952), also commonly referred to as The Steel Seizure Case, was a United States Supreme Court decision that limited the power of the President of the United States to seize private property in the absence of either specifically enumerated authority under Article Two of the United States Constitution or statutory authority conferred on him by Congress. It was a “stinging rebuff” to President Harry Truman.

    Justice Hugo Black’s majority decision was, however, qualified by the separate concurring opinions of five other members of the Court, making it difficult to determine the details and limits of the President’s power to seize private property in emergencies. While a concurrence, Justice Robert H. Jackson’s opinion is used by most legal scholars and members of Congress to assess executive power.

    … [Wikipedia]

    • If Trump was to declare a national emergency?

      Waiting for the courts might be toooo late….

      Once the rabbit would be out of the hat?

      Why couldn’t he just keep going to reinstate ALL of his anti-immigration wants????

      • McConnell has to grown some ‘ball’s’

        The Senate would approve the House spending to reopen the government….

        Both Trump and McConnell KNOW THAT….

  2. Donald J. Trump‏
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    3 hours ago

    V.P. Mike Pence and group had a productive meeting with the Schumer/Pelosi representatives today. Many details of Border Security were discussed. We are now planning a Steel Barrier rather than concrete. It is both stronger & less obtrusive. Good solution, and made in the U.S.A.

    https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump