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Who Called Out The Unconstitutional Emergency Immigration Powers? Trump and His Personal Lawyer.
As President Trump again floats the prospect of declaring a national emergency to claim new funding for his wall, the tensions that underlie conservatism in the Age of Trump are surfacing.
Once upon a time, Donald Trump, Noel Francisco, the Trump administration’s solicitor general, and Jay Sekulow, one of the president's personal lawyers, each took a much different approach when unilateral executive action encroached upon authority vested in the Congress. They hated it.
Back in November 2014, in the face of an impasse with Congress over immigration, Barack Obama announced his own “Immigration Accountability Executive Action,” and Citizen Trump would have none of it, tweeting that “Repubs must not allow Pres Obama to subvert the Constitution of the US for his own benefit & because he is unable to negotiate w/ Congress.”
Obama’s efforts were finally blocked by the courts, in part thanks to the efforts of Sekulow, whose clients included about two dozen Republican senators—Sen. Mitch McConnell among them —Republican congressmen, and conservative interest groups. In an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Sekulow compared Obama’s actions to Harry Truman’s steel seizure during the Korean War, while also hinting that Obama was a tyrant.
Once upon a time, Donald Trump, Noel Francisco, the Trump administration’s solicitor general, and Jay Sekulow, one of the president's personal lawyers, each took a much different approach when unilateral executive action encroached upon authority vested in the Congress. They hated it.
Back in November 2014, in the face of an impasse with Congress over immigration, Barack Obama announced his own “Immigration Accountability Executive Action,” and Citizen Trump would have none of it, tweeting that “Repubs must not allow Pres Obama to subvert the Constitution of the US for his own benefit & because he is unable to negotiate w/ Congress.”
Obama’s efforts were finally blocked by the courts, in part thanks to the efforts of Sekulow, whose clients included about two dozen Republican senators—Sen. Mitch McConnell among them —Republican congressmen, and conservative interest groups. In an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Sekulow compared Obama’s actions to Harry Truman’s steel seizure during the Korean War, while also hinting that Obama was a tyrant.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/guess-who-called-out-the-unconstitutional-emergency-immigration-powers-trumps-eyeing-trump-and-his-personal-lawyer?ref=home
