In a new editorial, the Washington Post calls on Democrats in the House to force a vote on a privileged joint resolution challenging the President’s emergency declaration. This would force every member of Congress to go on record and declare whether they support the President as he diverts congressionally...
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Last Friday, the same day President Trump announced the “national emergency,” Vice President Mike Pence joined the Munich Security Conference and enumerated the national security threats to the United States government. Notably missing from the Vice President’s speech, any mention of immigration, migrants, Central America or the President’s wall....
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America’s Voice “No one in Congress should be allowed to avoid voting on this presidential power grab,” – Washington Post Editorial Experts Agree, Trump’s “National Emergency” Undermines National Security English Associated Press Trump says he has ‘absolute right’ to declare emergency By Catherine Lucey February 19, 2019 The Washington...
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Feb 19, 2019
The national emergency this country faces is not at the southern border, but at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in the capital city. Last Friday, at the press conference where he declared his national emergency–the one he admitted was not even necessary to declare–President Donald Trump continued to show his incapacity...
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In the wake of Trump’s national emergency declaration, Lara Seligman’s latest piece for Foreign Policy spotlights how the administration will drain billions of dollars from military funding for the construction of an increasingly unpopular border wall. The President’s declaration came just days after military families testified at a Senate...
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“…a clear abuse of power that should offend any patriotic, Constitution-loving American.” (Houston Chronicle editorial) President Trump’s emergency declaration announcement is unpopular and unconstitutional, losing in the court of public opinion and soon in the actual courts. The burden now falls on Republicans to declare whether they stand with...
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WASHINGTON , DC – La emergencia nacional que enfrenta este país no está en la frontera sur, sino en el 1600 de la Avenida Pennsylvania de esta capital federal. El viernes, en la rueda de prensa donde declaró la emergencia nacional —la que luego reconoció que no era necesario declarar—, el presidente...
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As the legal and public opinion fallout swells from President Trump’s “national emergency” declaration, FiveThirtyEight’s Perry Bacon and Nate Silver provide a helpful cheat-sheet on where Republican senators purport to stand on the issue. But, as the duo explain, “opposing the declaration and voting for a resolution to end...
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America’s Voice Trump’s presidency is the real national emergency ICYMI: “Trump Declares National Emergency in ‘Slap in the Face to Military Families’” – Foreign Policy Emergency Declaration is Unpopular and Unconstitutional – What Side Will GOP Elected Officials Choose? La presidencia de Trump es la verdadera emergencia nacional Do...
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Donald Trump declared a national emergency in his attempt to get a border wall last Friday, and since then advocates and organizations have been mobilizing to make it clear that this is an egregious abuse of power which will not go unanswered. Protesters have signed tens of thousands of...
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