If/when it happens, the courts will give us the latest state of the union in terms of checks and balances. If a President can declare an emergency exists where clearly none does and loot the treasury to simply satisfy a campaign promise, this opens the door to campaign promises being unteathered to any action by the Congress. Money allocated for specific purposes in the Congressional bills will be meaningless.
The courts will render themselves a 3rd branch or they will render themselves meaningless.
It will be fun to watch.
Yup....the next Democratic president will call a State of Emergency after the next school shooting and make assault rifles illegal....good for the goose....good for the gander....
Exactly.
Cats out of the bag now.
Wait until the next Dem is in the White House.
Planned Parenthood needs more funding - but Congress won't give it to them...State of Emergency. That means more federal funds for abortions, Reps.
Liberals want more Stem Cell research funding, but Congress will not oblige...State of Emergency. More embryos destroyed for research. Way to go Reps.
Liberals want to seize former POTUS's Donald Trump's bank accounts...just for the heck of it. State of Emergency allows for it.
Liberals want to tear down the border fences (calling them immoral). Reps in Congress won't do it. State of Emergency.
There is a TREMENDOUS number of things the POTUS can do under the State of Emergency.
You short-sighted Reps have just opened a flood gate that will do NONE of us any good in the long run.
All for you stupid wall - yet you won't do ANYTHING about additional penalties for those who actually employ illegal immigrants (which would do far more to stop illegals than a wall 100 feet tall).
You short-sighted ignoramuses.
I guarantee you will come to regret it when the next Dem is in the White House.