NM to sue Trump over emergency declaration

The Albuquerque Journal ^ | February 18, 2019 | ABQJournal News Staff

[CedarDave]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and Attorney General Hector Balderas announced today that they will take President Donald Trump to court “over his inappropriate and overreaching” declaration of a national emergency.

Trump on Friday declared a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border ... The declaration is aimed at securing more money for his signature border wall.

Both Lujan Grisham and Balderas are blasting the president for the declaration, saying that it would divert funds “crucial to the protection of New Mexicans away from their proper channels and puts New Mexico’s economy and people at risk.”

“As Attorney General of a border state, I am appalled that President Trump would bypass the rule of law, manufacture an ‘emergency,’ and weaken our national defense and readiness for a potential terrorist attack or catastrophic natural disaster,” Balderas said in a statement. “I stand ready to join with our state partners to file against and prevent this abhorrent misuse of executive power.”

Lujan Grisham called the declaration “absurd and dangerous” and “a bald-faced end run around Congress.” “The president, plainly desperate, is attempting to set an autocratic precedent that has … absolutely no place in our country,” Lujan Grisham said in a statement. “As I have said, his futile demand for a border wall does nothing to address the legitimate humanitarian and public safety concerns at the border, and his continued fear-mongering is actively harmful, as would be his wall. There is zero real-world basis for an emergency declaration, and there will be no wall.”

[CedarDave]

The Rats (I can't call them Democrats) just want groups of 300 or more to continue to come across the poorly fenced border, especially at locations in the New Mexico bootheel such as Antelope Wells.

Lujan-Grisham says "a border wall does nothing to address the legitimate humanitarian and public safety concerns at the border." The exact opposite is true as it will prevent such large groups arriving. It's obvious to all, even the ABQ Journal, that having no controls invites the groups who can not be properly vetted and cared for. As Rush said yesterday, they want open borders so as to create an un-assimilated dependency class reliant on the state and federal government for basics and then put on voter rolls so the Rats gain and keep power.

[sheehan]

No standing

[blam]

The Socialists have taken over everything. What will we do when DJT is gone?

[centurion316]

take President Donald Trump to court “over his inappropriate and overreaching” declaration of a national emergency.

This is a political statement, not an actionable complaint. Someone needs to check to see if the NM Governor and the AG are graduates of a law school and it they are admitted to the bar.

[AU72]

Nationalize the NM National Guard.

[ronnie raygun]

put the wall on their northern border, they are now a part of mexico

[taxcontrol]

Colorado is joining the suit as well. Something about taking funds away from the Military here in Colorado gives them “cause”. Like the liberals ever cared about the military.

[Pravious]

The RATS seem to be functioning under some misunderstanding that we-the-people elected THEM to be President.

We didn’t.

They need to be slapped down.

[Psalm 73]

They flood the border states with illegals, so illegal-sympathetic governors and legislators get elected, and facilitate more illegals. To elect more illegal-sympathetic governors and legislators....

[Jeff Chandler]

No standing

Bingo.

[gov_bean_ counter]

And just how would it do all these things???

Please explain.

[DoughtyOne]

Silliness...

This is Constitutional. There’s no way to block it > IMO.

Then again, with Justice Roberts, you never know...

[DoughtyOne]

That’s what I keep asking folks critical of Trump, saying they won’t vote for him if there’s no wall. I wonder how many of them are now angry he has declared a National Emergency to get the wall done.

[CedarDave]

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[FlingWingFlyer]

It’s time to make New Mexico part of Old Mexico. They think so much alike. I’ve got no problem with 49 states again.

[sergeantdave]

“That’s what I keep asking folks critical of Trump, saying they won’t vote for him if there’s no wall. I wonder how many of them are now angry he has declared a National Emergency to get the wall done.”

It’s my guess that all those Trump-hating chicken pluckers have crawled back into their DU holes and are spending their Soros checks on pot and porn. Notice how they’re no where to found in the past few days.

[SisterK]

"weaken our national defense and readiness for a potential terrorist...a border wall does nothing to address the legitimate humanitarian and public safety concerns at the border"

Whoa...talk about confused, this one wins the prize.

[Regulator]

Hilarious

In every lawsuit before this the MexiNazis said “Only dee federal goberment can make dee eeemeegration law!”

That’s what they said about Prop. 187 and SB1070.

Now they’re changing their tune again! They want the States to be in charge! Who knew!

Guess it’s a matter of what day it is, huh?

[madrastex]

No problem
End the wall at Tx and Az

[LS]

Sorry, New Me-hee-co. No standing until a wall is built there.