Noah Feldman: Democrats’ compromise strengthens case for Trump’s border wall ‘emergency’

In retrospect, it seems obvious that President Donald Trump would want to have his cake and eat it, too. That's essentially what he's doing Friday by both signing a government funding bill that provides $1.375 billion for a barrier with Mexico and also declaring a national emergency to allocate other federal funds for the same purpose.Presumably, congressional Democrats knew this could happen when they entered the compromise to keep the government open in exchange for barrier funding considerabl