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Presidents and Guardrails: Obama’s abuses are no justification for Trump’s emergency order.
By The Editorial Board
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Hey spitbubble, the bolded text means there is no crisis, there is no emergency and there really is no debate about it. The President's own actions prove he does not believe this is a crisis or an emergency. Period. End of discussion.
The article ends with this insanely basic comment that all the self proclaimed Patriots and informed voters on this site should really understand...but don't.
(BTW...for those who are too lazy to read the actual editorial...this is from the WSJ, not WaPo.)
By The Editorial Board
One problem with today’s polarized politics is that both parties don’t mind stretching constitutional limits to achieve their policy goals. Democrats cheered on Barack Obama’s legal abuses on immigration and so much more, and now many Republicans are cheering President Trump’s declaration of a border emergency to build his wall. Constitutional conservatives should be wary of both.
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Donald Trump, meet Robert Jackson. He’s the Supreme Court Justice whose concurrence in Youngstown v. Sawyer may define the legal fate of Mr. Trump’s declaration. Harry Truman nationalized the steel mills during the Korean War, citing his powers as Commander in Chief. The Court overruled Truman, and as our friends at the New York Sun remind us, Jackson is famous for pointing out that presidential power depends on its relationship to congressional power and intent.
A President’s authority is at its peak when he acts with the support of Congress. It is somewhat weaker if he acts on his own but Congress hasn’t spoken. But a President’s power is “at its lowest ebb,” Jackson wrote, when “the President takes measures incompatible with the expressed or implied will of Congress.”
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As it happens, Mr. Trump’s history is also blinkered. In February 2018 he was offered a deal that included money for the wall in exchange for legalizing the Dreamers, who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children. But the President walked away because White House aide Stephen Miller and GOP restrictionists told him he’d be better off making immigration an election issue. Mr. Trump took their advice, and Republicans lost 40 House seats. That wasn’t Paul Ryan’s fault.
Hey spitbubble, the bolded text means there is no crisis, there is no emergency and there really is no debate about it. The President's own actions prove he does not believe this is a crisis or an emergency. Period. End of discussion.
The article ends with this insanely basic comment that all the self proclaimed Patriots and informed voters on this site should really understand...but don't.
But Democratic abuses of power are no excuse for Republicans to do the same. The Framers created constitutional guardrails precisely to protect against the political passions of the moment.
(BTW...for those who are too lazy to read the actual editorial...this is from the WSJ, not WaPo.)