{"id":28127,"date":"2019-02-20T06:19:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T11:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=28127"},"modified":"2019-02-20T06:19:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T11:19:31","slug":"trump-declares-emergency-to-build-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=28127","title":{"rendered":"Trump declares emergency to build the Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good day all. Last week, President Trump browbeat Nancy \u201cThere will be no money for the WALL!!\u201d Pelosi into forking over about $1.5 billion to pay for the wall. However, this isn\u2019t close to what\u2019s actually needed, and President Trump declared that there was an emergency and signed an order to that effect.<\/p>\n

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This allows President Trump to use funds from other departments already budgeted to pay for the construction of the border wall. This has made a number of people very unhappy. (I\u2019m not one of them) The Democrats<\/i><\/span> CommuNazis because President Trump pulled an end run around them. Some Republicans because they told their paymasters in the Chamber of Commerce that they would make sure the flow of cheap slave labor continued. Then there are those who aren\u2019t happy about the constitutional questions about this process.<\/p>\n

Now I\u2019m certainly no expert on the legal and constitutional aspects of the declaration of an emergency, however, President Trump isn\u2019t the first president to declare one. In fact, I\u2019ve been given to understand that there are some 31 such declarations, going back through several presidents, still in effect. I\u2019m also given to understand that almost none of them have any direct effect in the United States. (I understand that Obama used such a declaration, still in effect, to bomb Libya, kill Qaddafi and let the Eurotrash loot his bank accounts)<\/p>\n

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Of course, there is going to be challenges to this declaration, primarily by the CommuNazis who hate Americans and love criminals coming across the border to rob, rape and kill the Americans they hate. When the idea of President Trump declaring an emergency first popped up on the radar. The Kalifornistan Attorney General announced he would go to court to stop it. Here are some of the details from Fox News<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n

California<\/a> Attorney General Xavier Becerra<\/a> on Tuesday warned that he is prepared to challenge President Trump<\/a> in court should he declare a national emergency to fund the border wall. <\/b><\/p>\n

Becerra\u2019s remarks came during a nationally televised address as part of the Democrats\u2019 Spanish-language response to Trump\u2019s State of the Union address<\/a>. He condemned Trump\u2019s characterization of immigration, the partial government shutdown over the wall and the president\u2019s threat to cut federal funding to the state\u2019s communities devastated by wildfires, the Los Angeles Times<\/a> reported. <\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat we heard tonight was the same tired refrain of building walls,\u201d Becerra said. \u201cThe idea of declaring a nonexistent state of emergency on the border, in order to justify robbing funds that belong to the victims of fires, floods, hurricanes, and droughts, to pay for the wall is not only immoral. It is illegal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are ready to reject this foolish proposal in court the moment it touches the ground,\u201d Becerra said<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The thing about Becerra is he hold the Constitution in utter and complete contempt. His actions have always been to suppress the individual rights of American citizens lawful resident aliens. He also doesn’t have any standing.<\/p>\n

Some of the best information on what could happen is coming from actual lawyers, such as those on Powerline Blog<\/a>. Paul Mirengoff writes:<\/p>\n

President Trump\u2019s decision to declare a national emergency and move funds around to pay for more wall building is certain to be challenged in court. The case almost surely will arrive at the Supreme Court. <\/b><\/p>\n

Of that we can be certain. In the early stages, you can expect the CommuNazis to go judge shopping for one of their pet Obama Judges. Without a doubt, those judges will ignore any precedent, law or actual constitutional wording to rule in favor of our enemies, the illegal aliens currently invading the United States. As to the Supreme Court?<\/p>\n

When it does, Trump may not have five votes. Chief Justice Roberts, and conceivably others among the five center-right Justices, may be quite skeptical of this use of executive power as, indeed, are a number of conservative commentators. <\/b><\/p>\n

Perhaps, perhaps not. There is that problem I mentioned of the 31 other Declarations of Emergency currently in effect. If Roberts decides to shaft Trump, all those other declarations become very problematical. Mr. Mirengoff states that he hasn\u2019t studied the matter well enough to give an informed opinion, but he has read the works of others who have studied this issue.<\/p>\n

I found Jack Goldsmith\u2019s initial take<\/a> worth reading (hat tip: Rich Lowry<\/a>). Goldsmith dismisses liberal hysteria that Trump is sparking a constitutional crisis and\/or threatening the rule of law. Quite clearly, Trump is doing neither. As Goldsmith says:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Everything Trump proposes to do purports to be grounded in congressional statutes and much of what he aims to do does not rely on emergency power. Trump is not relying solely on Article II executive power, and he is not invoking executive power to disregard a congressional statute. Moreover, the statutes in question expressly give Trump authority in the areas in which he claims them.<\/b><\/p>\n

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There will be questions\u2014some of them hard, and without obvious answers\u2014about whether Trump\u2019s legal team has interpreted these congressional authorizations, and the conditions on their use, accurately. But. . .[t]he executive branch every day relies on vague or broad or dim delegations of authority, and courts usually uphold these actions. And as Trump himself stated many times, courts will ultimately sort out his claimed statutory authority in the wall context as well. <\/b><\/p>\n

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Many charge that Trump is declaring an emergency when there is no emergency. But this begs all the relevant questions. The relevant statute on which Trump relies does not define the term \u201cemergency.\u201d Presidents have always\u2014really, always\u2014had discretion to decide if there\u2019s an emergency. And presidents have often declared emergencies under circumstances short of necessity, to address a problem that does not rise to an \u201cemergency\u201d as defined in common parlance to mean \u201ca serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

And here I think President Trump may have some very large legs to stand on. We have multiple \u201ccaravans\u201d totaling thousands of people heading for our borders. We have thousands of others who have crossed over and are committing crimes, aside from the act of illegally entering and being in the United States, that are killing American citizens. There are criminal organizations, such as MS-13 that are virtual terrorist armies. I won\u2019t even bother with the kilotons of drugs coming across the border each year.<\/p>\n

Now a wall alone won\u2019t stop this. It isn\u2019t intended to. It is meant to slow things down and make it far more difficult, and probably dangerous to cross the border. There will also be electronic surveillance systems as well as manned patrols. I suspect that President Trump has all his legal ducks in a row regarding this declaration.<\/p>\n

How will all this play out? I can\u2019t say. President Trump may lose in court, but in the end, he will win. He is going to use this to show just how little the Democrats care about the safety and security of Americans. Considering all the other things the Democrats have been saying and doing, I\u2019d say there is a good chance that not only will President Trump be re-elected, but the Democrats will be hammered even worse than in 2010.<\/p>\n

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