Posted on 01/09/2019 8:13:37 AM PST by Steve1999
A Harvard law professor has spoken out to reveal that President Trump would be on "very solid legal ground" if he was to declare a national emergency to build the wall along the US Southern Border. According to Professor Mark Tushnet, Trump would be able to access unappropriated funds from the Department of Defense (DOD) budget and use the money for the wall's construction.
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Has anyone read the preamble on the 17DEC2017 Executive Order concerning drug trafficking, terrorism and human trafficking?
Fait accompli, FRenz.
Well he’s been on “solid ground” before only to have the hacks from Hawii and Washingron state ignore it.
As a practical matter, with Congress overwhelmingly opposed to border enforcement, I doubt that the State of Emergency gambit will work.
Since when is National Security negotiable?
Since when is National Security negotiable?
As will be the federal judges that the Left has already lined up to say it’s unconstitutional...just like everything else.
APPROPRIATED funds from the DoD budget, yes?
Not UNappropriated funds?
By the way, and for what it’s worth (which ain’t much), the thing that kept the Keystone pipeline from stretch from Canada into the United States is the executive power of the President over our borders and input/output flow of “stuff” from/to foreign nations. For the pipeline to cross the border, it needed a permissions slip from the chief of the executive branch.
Hussein Obama signed the law re-defining National Emergency during his term expecting to pass the baton on to Hillary. Unfortunately the legislation does not have a clause excluding its review by SCOTUS.
Right !
The CDC should be loud and in our faces about the diseases that are coming in unchecked.
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