just an FYI y'all.......... IF trump declares a 'national' emergency... there will be immediate litigation AND there is this:
If Trump declares a national emergency, Pelosi can jam Republicans. Here’s how.
By
Greg Sargent
Opinion writer
February 4 at 9:40 AM
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...Here’s why: According to one of the country’s leading experts on national emergencies, it appears that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) can trigger a process that could require the GOP-controlled Senate to hold a vote on such a declaration by Trump — which would put Senate Republicans in a horrible political position.
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What Pelosi can do
'... if Pelosi exercises this option, it will ultimately require the Senate to vote on it in some form as well. The NEA
stipulates that if one chamber (Pelosi’s House) passes such a resolution, which it easily could do, the other (McConnell’s Senate) must act on it within a very short time period — forcing GOP senators to choose whether to support it.
Alternatively, Goitein notes, the Senate could vote
not to consider that resolution or change its rules to avoid such a vote. But in those scenarios, the Senate would, in effect, be
voting to greenlight Trump’s emergency declaration.
The NEA lays out a timetable for this process, and by Goitein’s reading, it would all take place within the protracted period of barely longer than a month. “In short, there could be 36 days between introduction of the resolution in the House and a vote on the Senate floor,” Goitein told me, “but that vote would have to happen,” and once it did, one way or the other, it would put senators “on record.”
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...-can-jam-republicans-heres-how/?noredirect=on
