A Trump-Made Emergency

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/opinion/trump-national-emergency-border-wall.html

A Trump-Made Emergency
The president decides that fulfilling a campaign promise is more important than respecting the separation of powers.
By The Editorial Board
Feb. 14, 2019

With his intention to declare a national emergency at the southern border, President Trump is planning to take executive overreach to dizzying new heights. The damage to American democracy threatens to linger long after his administration is no more than a dank memory.

Cornered into accepting a budget deal that lacked the $5.7 billion in border-wall funding he demanded, the president could not handle being labeled a loser by conservative commentators like Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity. His solution: Sign the bill while simultaneously declaring a national emergency that, at least in his mind, would allow him to shift funds and order the military to start building his wall.

Not that this is the end of this battle. Mr. Trump’s emergency declaration is destined to wind up in the courts, where it could get bogged down indefinitely.

This fit of presidential pique is about more than a wall. It constitutes a reordering of the power dynamic between the branches of government. Mr. Trump aims to usurp one of Congress’s most basic responsibilities, the power of the purse.

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1. Little by little, the Orange Shitgibbon is turning our Democracy

into a copy of a Banana Republic. Unless and until we grow a spine and confront him he will continue to do so, perhaps permanently weakening our system of checks and balances. Let's see if Nancy actually goes through with the Resolution of Disapproval or not.