As House Democrats vote Tuesday to stop President Trump’s emergency declaration on the southern border,
congressional Republicans should ask themselves: Why is it that every
other president is permitted by courts to exercise “executive
discretion,” and yet Trump isn’t? A New York Times report
on Monday set up the scene for weak-willed Senate Republicans, writing
that, “The [Democrat-controlled] House’s vote on a declaration of
disapproval will force Republicans to choose between the congressional
prerogative over federal spending established in the Constitution and a
president determined to go around the legislative branch to secure funds
for a border wall that Congress has refused to grant.”This is, on its face, a false choice, though some in the GOP are stupidly buying into it. Trump’s emergency declaration earlier this month does nothing more
than free up little bits of money already allocated to the executive
branch so that he can build more wall barriers on the border, stunting
the overwhelming flood of illegal immigration from Latin America.
It’s every bit of a crisis today
as it was when former President Barack Obama called it that in 2014,
and the media happily played along. Trump’s official declaration only
means he’s using his last option to address the issue. This isn’t an choice between fidelity to the Constitution
or blind loyalty to a president; though I’ll note the executive branch
is part of that newly appreciated document, and Congress has already
given the president the authority to do exactly what Trump is pursuing.
This is a choice about relinquishing authority to Democrats to set
immigration policy even while a Republican president is in office...MORE
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Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Why is Obama allowed ‘executive discretion’ on immigration, but Trump isn't?
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When Obama used executive discretion the RINO'S just sat on their hands and sucked their thumbs saying we can't do anything because Obama is the president. So now we have the opportunity to process an executive action which will make America safer and what happens, the same RINO'S are now saying there is a better way...namely do nothing. What a bunch of cowards!
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