Published: February 23, 2019
The president’s own lawyer shows his power grab to be unconstitutional, but this is a purely political gambit
The battle over Donald Trump’s emergency declaration has escalated. Last Monday, 16 states sued the president over what they see as an unconstitutional and unlawful “diversion of federal funds toward construction of a border wall”. Their opposition to the president’s latest diktat is well-founded.
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