Mitch McConnell unsure on legality of Trump's emergency declaration
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) says he has yet to determine whether President Trump's emergency declaration to build border barriers is legal.
Asked for his legal opinion after meeting with a Department of Justice lawyer at a Tuesday luncheon of the GOP conference, McConnell said, "I haven't reached a total conclusion."
McConnell said while he graduated from law school, he's not an expert on constitutional questions of separations of power.
"I wouldn't go to me for a simple will," he said, while noting. "I did go to law school."
"We had real serious lawyers in there discussing that very issue," he said, summarizing the lunchtime discussion with Vice President Pence and the senior lawyer from Justice.
"We had a very fulsome discussion of this issue in the conference at noon today with the Vice President," McConnell added.
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