Can Donald Trump use emergency powers to build a southern-border wall?

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Perhaps—but the move would be a fraught political ploy

 

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Yes! And he’s doing it. And there’s absolutely NOTHING you’re gonna do about that.

Don is a friend of my who I appreciate. To be a president in such a country wld make all of us a bit concerned. My greetings to you. A wall is no obstacle. A promise is a promise.

Can the next one up, say, declare a defense related scrap metal shortage and use emergency powers to demolish de fence?

'Wrong cannot win on a 'made up' technicality.' - Aeschylus

Taken to its illogical conclusion, a President can 'simply overrule Congress' PLENARY POWER to Tax & Spend' by, as here, simply declaring a National Emergency? That doesn't even make logical sense. It makes a mockery of the Separation of Powers and the Rule of Law.

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