Trump Disgraces America Every Day

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Emergency: Trump splits the GOP
By Jennifer Rubin
Opinion writer
January 11 at 10:20 AM

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...mp-splits-gop/

Even in an Oval Office, Donny paints himself into a corner.

Former White House counsel Bob Bauer explains that “a president has the discretion to declare an emergency, not to create one.” He continues:

This distinction is critical. Congress did not attempt to define what constitutes an “emergency,” but this is not evidence that it left the choice without limits to the president. Rather, as one commentator wrote, the absence of a definition reflected “the assumption … that genuine crisis is readily identifiable by everyone in the polity.” Hence the law’s reference to “the period of a national emergency,” which would be clear to all, and which would then—and only then—be subject to the president’s declaration at his or her discretion.


The federal district and circuit courts have not been shy about rebuffing Trump’s executive overreach (on the Muslim travel ban, sanctuary cities, child separation, limits on asylum, environmental actions and more). They are highly unlikely to accept the president’s argument that an emergency is whatever he says it is and that it can be used to defy Congress when it refuses to exercise its power of the purse in ways he doesn’t like. (There is a process for those fights: Congress passes a bill, the president vetoes it, and Congress may override it.)

Will the Supreme Court, if it gets that far, bail him out? The Supreme Court, as Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. made clear when he rebuffed Trump’s suggestion that there were “Obama judges” and “Trump judges,” understands all too well this president’s design on extensive powers and his assertion that his powers are absolute, unrestrained by the Congress or the courts. Before we get to any issue involving Russia or the special counsel, the Supreme Court will find the authority of the judicial system challenged. While Trump’s appointees may indulge him, Roberts has demonstrated an understanding of the court’s institutional credibility. Getting the Supreme Court, even one as lax on executive powers as this one, to roll over would be a heavy lift.

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Mexico will pay for the wall!

Uh huh.

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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump

Good lord. The Deplorable in Chief is wigging out today.

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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...2a21d514f7?yry

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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b0922a21d51c8c

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Record shutdown hits Trump states hard

https://www.axios.com/record-shutdow...7f4b6d8db.html

Never ceases to amaze me just how incredibly stupid Trumpkins are.

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Donny’s ties to the Russian mafia go back 3 decades

https://www.vox.com/world/2018/9/12/...es-craig-unger

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[QUOTE=Chicks;376577]Donny’s ties to the Russian mafia go back 3 decades

https://www.vox.com/world/2018/9/12/...es-craig-unger[/QUOiTE]

It is obvious to anyone who lived in New York City that they were bleeding Russia and Ukraine.

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