This is a bogus comparison. Obama wasn’t acting under statutory authority. Trump is.
“Obama wasn’t acting under statutory authority. Trump is”
That’s the key point. If they didn’t want a President to have this authority they wouldn’t have passed the original act.
Paul needs to go back to operating on eyes and stop doing dime store legal analysis.
The National Emergency Act passed in 1976
Declaring a humanitarian crisis on the border that is compromising our sovereignty can be declared an emergency, I see no problem with that.
That is NOT the same as BO’s EO’s.
Did Senator Paul ever organize a rejection of ANY Executive order” issued by President Obama?
No?
Did Senator Paul ever read the Supreme Court’s 1983 Decision on The Emergency Declaration Law that CONFIRMED the President’s legal right to “declare national emergencies” and legal right to VETO Congressional resolutions passed to “nullify” those declarations?
NO?
Does Senator Paul think that the sailors who returned fire on the Japanese bombers at Pearl Harbor acted “illegally”, because our Congress had not yet exercised its “exclusive” Constitutional “right” to declare war on Japan?
Why not?
Thomas Jefferson had it right: “To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to the written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the ends to the means.”