AoS Post On The Failure Of The "Trump Emergency" Veto Override

[Yooper]

The post is so good in its entirety that it's worth taking 2-3 minutes (to skim)// 5-6 minutes (to read):

Link: "House Override Vote of Trump's Emergency Border Wall Order Fails, 248-181; Wall Construction Will Begin"

Here's how the post starts (don't stop with this snippet; read it through!):

Now, expect a court challenge, but here's the thing: This is a statutory use of the emergency power -- not an assertion of inherent constitutional power, which the courts would be more skeptical about -- but a statutory use of power that Congress delegated to the president.

Further, Congress spelled out the precise method by which such an order could be challenged: by a vote on a resolution of disapproval, which the president could veto (and then a subsequent veto override vote).

This was all specified by Congress. The Rule of Law was followed. To the letter.

This is not a case where the President is usurping Congressional power and the court feels it should step in to safeguard the separation of powers.

This is a case where Congress gave this power to the president, and the president accepted.

For the courts to step in here would not be safeguarding the separation of powers -- it would be violating it. If two coequal branches have worked this out between themselves, what right does a third buttinsky branch have to step in and overrule both of them?

What would the court challenge be predicated upon? That Congress may not delegate so much power to the president?

AoS comments on both the Veto Override fail and (as an added bonus) Sen. Mike Lee's presentation on the New Green Deal.

Here's a snippet from the Sen. Lee "bonus":

For a more serious quote, [Lee] says, "It's not a serious policy document. Because it's not a policy document at all. The resolution is not an agenda of solutions. It's a token of elite tribal identity, and endorsing it, a public act of piety, for the chic and the woke."

He then shows pictures of babies and urges Americans to have more of them.

Serious and spot-on, re: the former; hilarious, re: the latter.

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[Gilligan]

AoS...always ferret out the good stuff. The commenting moron horde is the best.

 

[vraiblonde]

I bookmarked this thread for later reading.

Thank you, new forums!

 

[Yooper]

Mea culpa. I should have noted that AoS is "Ace of Spades."

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