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YES, TRUMP CAN DECLARE AN EMERGENCY
Congress did not get to be so terrible overnight.
Feckless and incompetent, our legislative branch stumbles forward without direction or even a modest impulse toward self-preservation. But unlike
the proverbial turtle on a fence post, it mostly got there by itself.
It may be dismaying for Democrats to hear just now, but President Trump
most assuredly has the authority to declare a national emergency
concerning matters of immigration. He has that authority because the
Congress explicitly gave such power to the executive branch in 1976.
In the wake of Richard Nixon’s reign, Congress still devolved its own
authority to an executive branch that had just proven itself to be an unreliable custodian of liberty.
The first president to issue an emergency proclamation was, not
surprisingly, Woodrow Wilson, no fan of Congress or the Constitution. He established the United States Shipping Board which, essentially, made the government into a shipbuilding company. His three Republican successors
did not follow suit, Calvin Coolidge especially abjured such monarchical
power.
Franklin Roosevelt, however, had no such qualms and exerted broad
executive authority over the ways Americans lived and worked, citing the emergency of a worldwide depression.
Eventually the Supreme Court did intervene, telling Roosevelt’s successor
Harry Truman that no, he could not nationalize the steel industry because
of some murky combination of the Soviet Union and labor disputes.
Things stayed murky for a while, even as Nixon’s royalist impulses led to
new “emergencies,” including one to address striking postal workers in
1970.
The joke here is that the devolution of congressional authority that today gives Trump the power to override a clearly stated congressional refusal
came from a Congress that was trying to put a check on executive
authority. It was the same Democratic congressman who oversaw the effort
to bring articles of impeachment against Nixon who spearheaded the
National Emergencies Act. When Gerald Ford signed it into law it was
received as a defeat for executive authority.
Har-de-har-har.
Consider that. Immediately after the previous high tide of abuse of
executive authority and in the wake of a president being forced from
office for lying about the illegal activities of his administration the Congress of these United States went ahead and granted broad authorities
to the executive branch.
We don’t have enough test cases to know for sure, but the constitutional legitimacy of the law is dubious at best. Like our friend Judge Andrew Napolitano would say: “Legal but not constitutional.”
When Trump said today that it would “be very surprising [to him] that [he] would not declare a national emergency” it sounded preposterous and not
just for his garbled syntax. Congress has repeatedly refused the
president’s demands for an additional $4 billion or so in border security funding. Does the president really have the power to deploy the military
to circumvent Congress?
Yup.
Like many great civilizations before us, America is slouching toward authoritarianism. Democracies tend toward kingship in almost every case
since charismatic leaders and demagogues are so successful at deceiving
voters by appealing to emotion rather than reason.
Our founders rejected pure democracy for that very reason. That’s why we
have a republic in which institutions and a constitutional separation of
powers prevents authority from coagulating. The same Democrats who now
decry Trump’s claims of magisterial power include some of those who said,
for instance, that Trump’s predecessor had the authority to mint a $1
trillion coin in order to circumvent congressional authority over
borrowing.
There are many crises in America today. That may include our chaotic and malformed immigration regime. But it also includes our pitiful Congress, partisanship and electoral cowardice has made the branch of government
intended to be the first among equals into a vassal.
THE RULEBOOK: INFERIORITY COMPLEX
“There is evidently a great inferiority in the power of the President, in
this particular, to that of the British king; nor is it equal to that of
the governor of New York, if we are to interpret the meaning of the constitution of the State by the practice which has obtained under it.” – Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 69
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Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party ran out of gas and got run over by a Trump
truck.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
of the Obama presidency.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.
ObamaCare is a total 100% failure and no lie that can be put forth by its supporters can dispute that.
Obama jobs, the result of ObamaCare. 12-15 working hours a week at minimum wage, no benefits and the primary revenue stream for ObamaCare. It can't
be funded with money people don't have, yet liberals lie about how great
it is.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.
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