Posted on 01/08/2019 4:38:54 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The White House can use unspent funds to build a wall if President Donald Trump declares a national emergency and fends off various lawsuits, say lawyers cited in media reports. The New York Times reported:
The Trump administration could point to two laws and say they allow officials to proceed with building a border wall without first obtaining explicit authorization and appropriations from Congress, according to Elizabeth Goitein, who oversaw the Brennan Center’s study and is a co-director of its Liberty and National Security Program.
One of the laws permits the secretary of the Army to halt Army civil works projects during a presidentially declared emergency and instead direct troops and other resources to help construct “authorized civil works, military construction and civil defense projects that are essential to the national defense.”
Another law permits the secretary of defense, in an emergency, to begin military construction projects “not otherwise authorized by law that are necessary to support such use of the armed forces,” using funds that Congress had appropriated for military construction purposes that have not yet been earmarked for specific projects.
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Good. Get er done.
Problem is that administration folks have been out throughout the day saying that Trump won’t be invoking it. Don’t know why they had to signal that before Trump speaks.
Bump!
I read a comment here that the names of Americans killed by illegal aliens should be engraved on the wall. What a great idea but I can’t find the post now to give the FReeper credit.
I don’t think it’s off the table. He’ll hold it as his ace if Chuck and Nancy refuse to come to the table.
Drones can be undone overnight, therefore the Dems would agree to drones..
Sensors can be undone overnight, therefore the Dems would agree to sensors..
A PERMANENT WALL CANNOT BE UNDONE, THEREFORE THE DEMS WOULD NEVER AGREE TO IT!! THIS IS WHY THE WORD "WALL" SCARES THEM SO MUCH!!
President Trump needs to tell the Americn people the TRUTH about WHY the DemonRats do NOT want a WALL!!!
Emergency defined as per The United States Code Title 42, Chapter 68, Subchapter I, §5122 -
“Emergency means any occasion or instance for which, in the determination of the President, Federal assistance is needed to supplement State and local efforts and capabilities to save lives and to protect property and public health and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in any part of the United States.”
The President is on firm legal grounds.
whatever it takes. Obamatard never needed a reason for anything if he wanted it...
Do it! Do It! DO IT! :)
Trump may be on firm legal ground. That won’t stop the Democrats shopping for a judge who will issue an injunction.
You are exactly right. A Democrat president could quietly and easily undo border patrol people and other “non-physical” barriers. It would not be so easy or politically palatable for that same president to get a wrecking crew to tear down the wall.
You are correct; all the more reason for Trump to shop a judge, establish the court’s jurisdiction and maybe even obtain the rule BEFORE he issues the decree.
Perhaps that is what he is working on .... remember how he suggested after the last 9th court circus that he would work to prevent such judicial shopping in the future?
All Trump really needs is for 1 judge to simply say, “I have national jurisdiction on this issue and all cases from here forward must go through my court.”
That is what the dem judges do when they issue ‘nation-wide injunctions’.
Bump
Wait a minute, just yesterday, Eddie Munster was on FOX News telling me POTUS could not sign an EO claiming the border issue was a national emergency.
I thought Eddie knew it all.
They were referring to the speech he was getting ready to give - not to his whole game plan.
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