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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sun Feb 17, 2019, 08:48 PM Feb 2019

Legal experts say Trump's national emergency comments could undercut him in court

President Donald Trump acknowledged Friday in declaring a national emergency on the southern border that the move is likely to face an uphill battle in court.

But what could make its defense more difficult is the announcement itself, legal experts say.

In his remarks, Trump said that while he was successful in securing more than $1.3 billion in funding from Congress for additional border fencing, he wants to build a wall quickly.

"I could do the wall over a longer period of time," Trump said. "I didn’t need to do this. But I'd rather do it much faster."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/legal-experts-say-trumps-national-emergency-comments-could-undercut-him-in-court/ar-BBTIv5k

I would hope so but you have a Supreme Court populated by people like Beer Keg Kavanaugh.

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Legal experts say Trump's national emergency comments could undercut him in court (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2019 OP
They had right winger on MSNBC who said the fact trump warned Congress he'd "have to" Hoyt Feb 2019 #1
 

Hoyt

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1. They had right winger on MSNBC who said the fact trump warned Congress he'd "have to"
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 08:55 PM
Feb 2019

declare an emergency if funding were not provided, could work in his favor.

Sounds wrong, but it’s hard to know how courts will rule.

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