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Trump’s Emergency Declaration Is Contemptuous of the Rule of Law
NRO ^ | February 15, 2019 6:29 PM | David French

Posted on 02/15/2019 6:25:21 PM PST by mrsmith

Before today, legal writers were guessing at the statutes the president would use to justify defying the will of Congress and using the military to build his border wall. Now we know. In his declaration, he’s exclusively using 10 U.S.C. 2808 to reallocate up to $3.6 billion from Department of Defense construction projects — more than double the amount that Congress allocated for wall construction in its border compromise. (He intends to use other funds as well for wall construction, but those aren’t applicable to the emergency declaration.)


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KEYWORDS: davidfrench; immigration; law; nevertrump; nevertrumper; nevertrumpers; wall
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Best 'anti-wall' article I've seen. The hole in his argument IMO is the military, nor civil, role of the wall.
1 posted on 02/15/2019 6:25:21 PM PST by mrsmith
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Wow! he needs to lay off the coffee.


2 posted on 02/15/2019 6:31:15 PM PST by fini
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The Rule of Law died in January of 2009. David French wants to lose with dignity, not win.


3 posted on 02/15/2019 6:31:52 PM PST by cdcdawg
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not this putz again


4 posted on 02/15/2019 6:32:15 PM PST by Conserv
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5 posted on 02/15/2019 6:32:46 PM PST by Trump20162020
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To: fini

I was thinking he needs fiber in his diet. Lots of it. He has too much pressure in his intestines.


6 posted on 02/15/2019 6:33:49 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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To: Trump20162020

boom


7 posted on 02/15/2019 6:34:59 PM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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Because NRO has such respect for “the rule of law.”


8 posted on 02/15/2019 6:35:03 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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All of these anal retentive pundits should read the story of Alexander the Great and the Gordian Knot.


9 posted on 02/15/2019 6:35:11 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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nice


10 posted on 02/15/2019 6:35:19 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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I bet this person had NO issue with Obama giving BILLIONS to Iran by bypassing Congress..he just gave them the money in the middle of the night..not a peep of outrage


11 posted on 02/15/2019 6:36:17 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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NRO has always been a den of open borders advocates.
One hundred percent of all arguements against the wall, and one hundred percent of the people who support those arguements outright ignore (not minimize, but ignore) the preamble of the Constitution.


12 posted on 02/15/2019 6:36:42 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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Trump’s Emergency Declaration Is Contemptuous of the Rule of Law

We have twenty or thirty million illegals in this country, we have a Congress that has failed to act, and Never Trumper David French thinks that Trump is the one who is contemptuous of the rule of law?

What a dope.

13 posted on 02/15/2019 6:37:24 PM PST by FreeReign
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Interesting argument. Would building a wall protect the military from having to use time and resources on something that should not have to do? That’s my question. I don’t believe French’s argument is anywhere near cut and dried.


14 posted on 02/15/2019 6:38:11 PM PST by be-baw
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[Never Trumper David French thinks that Trump is the one who is contemptuous of the rule of law]

TDS liars like to lie.

The Revolution - By Any Means Necessary


15 posted on 02/15/2019 6:38:38 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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When the Rule of Law exempts Democrats there is no Rule of Law.


16 posted on 02/15/2019 6:38:46 PM PST by arthurus (djy4444)
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To: FreeReign

Dope? Retromingent jackass is more appropriate.


17 posted on 02/15/2019 6:39:03 PM PST by Fungi
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Twenty years ago we had twenty million of them. Did they stop coming in then?


18 posted on 02/15/2019 6:40:14 PM PST by arthurus (djy4444|||||)
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French is a Democrat.

So he can shove The Wall up his 0bama sideways.

19 posted on 02/15/2019 6:42:20 PM PST by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: Trump20162020

keeper...


20 posted on 02/15/2019 6:44:44 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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