Screw up an emergency declaration in ten easy steps

[struggle4progress]

By Jennifer Rubin
Opinion writer
February 17 at 12:00 PM

... he did not address the issue when the Republican Party held majorities in both the House and Senate ...

... the president repeatedly threatens to use emergency powers until Congress gives him what he wants. The critical precondition for an emergency declaration is lack of congressional compliance ...

... there is no report or analysis demonstrating why Congress’s response is inadequate ...

... Trump tells a set of ridiculous lies to justify his border wall ...

... There is no better reason for voters to throw out Trump and Senate Republicans in 2020 ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/02/17/how-screw-up-an-emergency-declaration-ten-easy-steps/?utm_term=.2eb89bd6b5f1

[dalton99a]

1. "There is no better reason for voters to throw out Trump and Senate Republicans in 2020."

According to Trump, he’s received legal advice that his emergency power grab is likely to be enjoined. Well, even Trump’s lawyers figured that out. However, Trump’s irrational, desperate and incoherent approach has not merely damaged his chances of surviving a court challenge. He has made it infinitely harder for Republicans to defend him and vote against a resolution reversing the declaration. Trump told them there was no emergency.

Any intellectual honest lawmaker cognizant of both this fact pattern and his oath of office would be obliged to vote to end the fraudulent emergency. However, we’ve already seen Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) prove he is willing to ignore facts (and his oath) to support an authoritarian president. Other Republicans no doubt will follow suit. There is no better reason for voters to throw out Trump and Senate Republicans in 2020. Those who aren’t “idiots” are willfully violating their oaths. Either way, they need to go.