19-02-2019 20:06 via theguardian.com

Trump might have a solid case for emergency declaration, analysts say

Though Trump himself suggested there is no real emergency, courts are unlikely to second-guess a president’s broad leewayMany legal analysts who watched Donald Trump declare a national emergency over immigration on Friday thought the president had weak legal grounds for doing so. In particular, many thought Trump hurt his own case by admitting, right there in the White House Rose Garden: “I didn’t need to do this, but I’d rather do it much faster.”“This quote
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