Trump Will Declare a National Emergency

in the future gun violence could be classed as a national emergency and now any future POTUS has the scope to bypass congress.

It should be 9-0. They’re smart enough to know the precident it would set.

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The precedent will come when the courts laugh this back to the White House.

Democrats won’t be able to use this.

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a question for those that support his so called emergency

its clear congress doesnt want to fund teh wall.
the constitution gives congress the power of the purse

whats to stop a future president from banning the sale or possession of semi auto rifles liek the ar-15?
after all if trump can try and make an end run aroudn teh constitution wha cant a future president?

whats to stop a future president from lowering teh medicare age to birth,creating medicare for all

if a president can declare an emergency to go around congress what are the limits?

How come the president didn’t do this back in December, would have saved federal workers a lot of stress?

Allam

Republicans can’t see past the wall.

I expect the Democratic opposition to this overreach by President Trump will forestall any effort to recycle this power the next time a Democrat takes up residence in the White House.

But should Trump’s power grab make it through Congress and the Courts I would expect the next Democratic President would be much more likely to declare an emergency over climate change rather than gun violence.

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gun violence,climate change,healthcare.

theres pretty much no limit

Except the Constitution. Pretty good rulebook, that one!

and the precedent will be set… get ready America. Elections have consequences.

Good luck with that. See the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 9th, and 10th Amendments.

The precedent was set decades ago.

in 2014 trump tweeted this after Obama took executive action of immigration

Repubs must not allow Pres Obama to subvert the Constitution of the US for his own benefit & because he is unable to negotiate w/ Congress.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/535441553079431168

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Plus they’re gonna sit there and go “how come this wasn’t a national emergency for the last 2 years?” .

This is nothing other than a strong man power grab. I’m glad he’s doing it. This is as close to a Republican media presidency as we’ll ever get.

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He used an EO to subvert the law. Try again.

say goodbye to your guns when the dems win in 2021 and president harris declares their possession a threat to national security and bans them

Oh please please do.

You mean he used unilateral executive authority as an end round because he was deadlocked with Congress? Yeah, that’s nothing like this.

Maintaining your rep as Trump’s harshest critic.

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This is now just pure vanity. He didn’t get his way. So now he’s going to do whatever he needs to so that he feels successful. Never mind the overreach. Never mind the precedence that it sets. His ego just does not allow someone to say “no” to him. Pure and simple. This is the flight of fancy of a megalomaniac. You guys support a child in the White House.

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oh goodie! then Rush and Sean can dust off their “activist judges ruling from the bench” scripts.