Friday, February 22, 2019

Trump's 'National Emergency' Is a Purely Dictatorial Action

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a26345673/trumps-national-emergency-is-a-purely-dictatorial-action/?fbclid=IwAR3h37A6EWMr34yTgir3XsU2OAqrZq6Z6hmkaDxaGuwRvDKMonlReIdN-j0
"This is a clear and present danger to the constitutional order. Without the power of the purse, Congress has no power at all. Mitch McConnell knows this. He even has been warning against this very power grab for a couple of weeks now. But he seems determined to neuter his own institution in order to curry favor with a failed president* and a bunch of idiot pundits from Fox News. He is abandoning his own responsibilities in the hopes that the courts will bail him out. And, again, there is no national emergency to be declared. Not outside of the Oval Office, anyway."