Seventeen (or some other number) of States are going to SUE!!!!!!!
The ACLU is going to SUE!!!!!!
Uncountable local localities are going to SUE!!!!
All are meaningless, wasteful, time-consuming nonsense.
None of the aforementioned entities has "standing" to sue.
Standing is a legal capacity that is based on vested interests that have been assaulted in some way. If your father is killed by a negligent FedEx driver, you can sue FedEx. It it's your best friend who got killed, sorry, you have no standing to sue.
None of these states have any vested interest that is impaired by Trump's declaration of a "national emergency" or his decision to move funds to his [our] Wall on the border. Nor does the ACLU. Nor does any property owner. Nor does any taxpayer. Nor does any municipality, even if the wall were to be build right down the main street of the town. (the protections afforded by Eminent Domain rules are sufficient).
In fact, the only entity that has a protectable interest is the Congress, so it is conceivable that some Democrat in Congress could sue and the case wouldn't immediately be thrown out of court. S/he would ultimately lose, but at least s/he would have standing.
Note that all of these lawsuits are going to be brought in Leftist U.S. District Courts (Sorry, Justice Roberts, it is what it is), and some of them may get through to the Circuit Court of Appeals, but it's all bullshit.
Now to the substance. Congress has given the President broad powers to declare a national emergency, and in fact very few of such declarations have been what a normal person would consider an "emergency." The President is not proposing to spend any money that has not already been provided by Congress; he is merely re-directing certain funds in a manner that is perfectly fine with the Department of Defense. And defense of the southern border is "national defense" whether you like it or not.
The current rate of crossings is not relevant to this discussion. What is relevant is that every time there is a revolution, or an uprising, or any kind of a catastrophe or disaster south of our border, it spawns another group of migrants who seek to come here in contravention of our laws. These sections of wall will make it more difficult for those people in the future to get across. Which is sufficient justification to build these sections of the Wall.
As with the "Muslim ban" that was not a Muslim ban, the President will ultimately win this battle, because he is right in what he is doing, and it is legal, constitutional, and appropriate.
How long will it take the public to recognize how phony it is when the Leftists in government, the media, and academe scream and wail at EVERYTHING this President does, with no regard for anything.
The ACLU is going to SUE!!!!!!
Uncountable local localities are going to SUE!!!!
All are meaningless, wasteful, time-consuming nonsense.
None of the aforementioned entities has "standing" to sue.
Standing is a legal capacity that is based on vested interests that have been assaulted in some way. If your father is killed by a negligent FedEx driver, you can sue FedEx. It it's your best friend who got killed, sorry, you have no standing to sue.
None of these states have any vested interest that is impaired by Trump's declaration of a "national emergency" or his decision to move funds to his [our] Wall on the border. Nor does the ACLU. Nor does any property owner. Nor does any taxpayer. Nor does any municipality, even if the wall were to be build right down the main street of the town. (the protections afforded by Eminent Domain rules are sufficient).
In fact, the only entity that has a protectable interest is the Congress, so it is conceivable that some Democrat in Congress could sue and the case wouldn't immediately be thrown out of court. S/he would ultimately lose, but at least s/he would have standing.
Note that all of these lawsuits are going to be brought in Leftist U.S. District Courts (Sorry, Justice Roberts, it is what it is), and some of them may get through to the Circuit Court of Appeals, but it's all bullshit.
Now to the substance. Congress has given the President broad powers to declare a national emergency, and in fact very few of such declarations have been what a normal person would consider an "emergency." The President is not proposing to spend any money that has not already been provided by Congress; he is merely re-directing certain funds in a manner that is perfectly fine with the Department of Defense. And defense of the southern border is "national defense" whether you like it or not.
The current rate of crossings is not relevant to this discussion. What is relevant is that every time there is a revolution, or an uprising, or any kind of a catastrophe or disaster south of our border, it spawns another group of migrants who seek to come here in contravention of our laws. These sections of wall will make it more difficult for those people in the future to get across. Which is sufficient justification to build these sections of the Wall.
As with the "Muslim ban" that was not a Muslim ban, the President will ultimately win this battle, because he is right in what he is doing, and it is legal, constitutional, and appropriate.
How long will it take the public to recognize how phony it is when the Leftists in government, the media, and academe scream and wail at EVERYTHING this President does, with no regard for anything.