ACLU Plans To Sue Trump Administration Over Border Emergency Declaration

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Source: Talking Points Memo

By Caitlin MacNeal
February 15, 2019 3:04 pm
Just a few hours after President Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced Friday that it will file a lawsuit next week challenging the declaration.

“By the president’s very own admission in the Rose Garden, there is no national emergency. He just grew impatient and frustrated with Congress, and decided to move along his promise for a border wall ‘faster.’ This is a patently illegal power grab that hurts American communities and flouts the checks and balances that are hallmarks of our democracy,” Anthony Romero, the ACLU’s executive director, said in a statement Friday afternoon.

The ACLU said that it will argue in the lawsuit that the emergency powers Trump used to make the declaration cannot be used to build a border wall. Those powers were meant for “military construction projects, like overseas military airfields in wartime, that ‘are necessary to support’ the emergency use of armed forces,” the ACLU said in the statement.

It was widely expected that Trump’s decision to declare a national emergency in order to fund construction of a border wall would prompt legal challenges. Trump himself acknowledged in his Friday morning speech announcing the move that he will face lawsuits.



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This is why I support the ACLU..............................

November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough......................

[Gothmog]

1. ACLU announces intention to file legal challenge against Pres. Trump's national emergency declaratio

Link to tweet

[turbinetree]

2. Wado------------Thank you, for the update

[splat]

3. CREW had a suit ready and has already filed it

https://www.citizensforethics.org/press-release/crew-sues-doj-over-presidential-emergency-powers-documents/

Here's the suit: https://www.citizensforethics.org/press-release/crew-sues-doj-over-presidential-emergency-powers-documents/

[DownriverDem]

6. Well well

The more the merrier!

[turbinetree]

7. Wado------------Thank you

[RKP5637]

4. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[DownriverDem]

5. Let the

litigation begin.

[Solly Mack]

8. K&R

[sinkingfeeling]

9. I pray there will hundreds of suits.

[vsrazdem]

10. Only problem is I think they have to have standing to do this and I am not sure they do as they

are not directly impacted. We shall see though. I hope I am wrong.

[oldsoftie]

12. Never thought of that but you have a point. Landowners could possibly have "standing". nt

[vsrazdem]

13. I agree. Anyone impacted, even contractors if funds in the military are being diverted from

projects they were supposed to do. If he tries taking funds slotted for disaster relief those states could sue. Also I think congress could sue as he is usurping their powers.

[akraven]

11. I've been a supporter since 1972.

They'll take his border wall and shove it up his fat ass.

[raccoon]

14. I guess it is time to write them a check. nt

[Evolve Dammit]

15. Glad I just renewed my membership

Sue 'em till the cows come home. And then keep suing them! Traitorous, racist, anti-American bastards.