National Emergency will be blocked by courts temporarily, DOJ warns White House

[babylonsister]

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National Emergency will be blocked by courts temporarily, DOJ warns White House
A senior official said the White House would win an appeal.
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By Jonathan Karl, Mike Levine and Katherine Faulders16m ago


The Justice Department has warned the White House a national emergency declaration is nearly certain to be blocked by the courts on, at least, a temporary basis, preventing the immediate implementation of the president's plan to circumvent Congress and build the wall using his executives powers, ABC News has learned.

However, a senior White House official tells ABC News that the White House is confident the administration can ultimately win the case on appeal.

Lawyers at the White House, the Department of Homeland Security and at the Pentagon have been working for weeks to iron out different options the president would have to obtain funds for his border wall.

By declaring a national emergency at the border, the president could potentially free up billions of dollars to begin work on construction of a southern border wall. Much of that money would be pulled from the Department of Defense.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. When President Harris declares the existence of Walmart and Koch Industries are national

emergencies...I wanna be there.

Adding Faux News, Twitter and FB to the list by popular demand

[fierywoman]

8. Could you please add Facebook and Twitter and Faux Snooze to the list? TY +eom

[Eliot Rosewater]

10. Will do

[Blue Owl]

2. Good.

Because it ain't no emergency.

[csziggy]

18. The only emergency is the humanitarian one Dolt45 has created

By blocking refugees at the border, not providing enough judges to hear their cases, separating children and their parents, and generally acting like an asshole.

[Yosemito]

3. SCOTUS is right wing and Ginsburgs health is fragile

He may prevail at the end.

[Blue_true]

11. He is opening up a real can of worms.

If he does win, reoublicans will come to rue the day. Future democratic Presidents should be merciless in using the option of the Courts don't stop Trump. A Justice like Roberts certainly would know approving this renders Congress AND the Courts null and void and essentially makes the President a mini dictator.

[spanone]

4. and if he wins on appeal, he is free to rule by emergency.

[Blue_true]

12. Exactly, rendering the Courts and Congress redundant.

I suspect, and I really hope that Roberts will not go for this move.

[bdamomma]

5. Who is

the Senior WH official ready??? STEPHEN MILLER. This evil POS has to go. Karma will get him.

[Mme. Defarge]

6. I think that the reason for doing this

is to demonstrate to his base that he did what he could to get his wall, and it won’t be his fault if the meanies won’t let him have it.

[EleanorR]

7. I think he's desperate to get money to Roman Abramovich, the russian steel magnate

Payoff for past or continued russian government support.

[Mme. Defarge]

9. Hmmmm

So many subplots so little time. And I’m retired! When the Trump horror show finally ends I may need to get a day job just to fill the void.

[TrishaJ]

16. Agreed. It's not really about a wall.

It's about the money. He couldn't get it legally, so now he's going to try to embezzle it.

[Blue_true]

13. That is what I see.

He will do it, the House will sue. The Courts will slap Trump down. He will go to all his rallies until he is defeated in 2020 whining about interference to his efforts to protect Americans from a non existent issue.

[Mme. Defarge]

14. Bingo!

Blame, blame, blame.

[highmindedhavi]

15. He will just build in Texas

Wait the other states out

[area51]

17. He may have trouble

building the wall in Texas.

[highmindedhavi]

20. Thanks for the article

[malaise]

19. So it's a stunt for his base

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm