Rand Paul Is Right to Reject Trump’s Emergency Declaration

Senator Rand Paul has announced that, despite supporting improvements in border security, he will vote against President Trump’s emergency declaration on the grounds that it’s an abuse of executive power -- and he’s absolutely right.“Every single Republican I know decried President Obama’s use of executive power to legislate,” Paul wrote in an opinion piece for Fox News. “We were right then.”“But the only way to be an honest officeholder is t