Lying? It was exactly as I described. Full of all too many links to click on.
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Sorry Democrats, this “national emergency” business is not quite the work of “dictators.”"
"The American people stand with President Trump
following his amazing Oval Office address explaining the human cost of illegal immigration."
"Of Obama’s 11 continuing national emergencies, nine of them were focused exclusively on foreign nations, while only one
seemed focused on protecting America — a declaration aimed at punishing individuals “engaging in significant malicious cyber-enabled activities."
So partisan it made me want to puke.
"All of the rest of Obama’s national emergencies were focused on blocking property or prohibiting transactions/travel for individuals engaged in various activities in — by order of the date of enactment — Somalia, Libya, transnational criminal organizations, Yemen, Ukraine, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Venezuela and Burundi."
Personally I don't think any of those represent the kind of national emergency Congress had in mind with they passed this bill. They need to pass a joint resolution to end the emergency(and all the other declared ones that aren't really emergencies as well) and override the veto that would surely come. At the same time they need to pass an amendment to the Act that clearly defines what constitutes a National Emergency so that the next president is not tempted to do the same thing. Otherwise we're taking another step in handing the next Caesar the throne.
Oh dear, not once did I argue about Obamas emergencies, whether they were valid or not. What I am pointing out from the start that National Emergencies have existed and used many times already. I even posted evidence of it by quote.
This is what I stated in post one, MY WORDS:
"The Border Wall law pass passed and signed into law in 2006, ever since then it has been party politics preventing the funding for the wall. First it was Democrats who tried to fund the wall, but stopped by Republicans, now it is the Republicans who wants to fund it, the Democrats resist it.
Your ignorance is incredible, you write,
"They need to pass a joint resolution to end the emergency(and all the other declared ones that aren't really emergencies as well) and override the veto that would surely come. At the same time they need to pass an amendment to the Act that clearly defines what constitutes a National Emergency so that the next president is not tempted to do the same thing. Otherwise we're taking another step in handing the next Caesar the throne."
It has been done
1976 when
CONGRESS passed the main update for it, to provide some check and balance in use of Emergency declarations:
"The
National Emergencies Act (
NEA) (
Pub.L. 94–412, 90
Stat. 1255, enacted September 14, 1976, codified at
50 U.S.C. § 1601–1651) is a
United States federal law passed to end all previous national emergencies
states of national emergency and to formalize the emergencies powers of the President.
The Act empowers the President to activate special powers during a crisis but imposes certain procedural formalities when invoking such powers. The perceived need for the law arose from the scope and number of laws granting special powers to the
executive in times of national emergency. Congress can undo a state of emergency declaration with either a joint resolution and the President's signature, or with a veto-proof majority vote.
[1]
The legislation was signed by President Gerald Ford on September 14, 1976.
[2] As of February 2019, 59 national emergencies have been declared, and the United States is under 31 continuing declared states of national emergency.[1][3]"
WIKIPEDIA LINK
You need to catch up.
