ACLU Plans To Sue Trump Administration Over Border Emergency Declaration
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Caitlin MacNeal
February 15, 2019 3:04 pm
Just a few hours after President Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced Friday that it will file a lawsuit next week challenging the declaration.
By the presidents very own admission in the Rose Garden, there is no national emergency. He just grew impatient and frustrated with Congress, and decided to move along his promise for a border wall faster. This is a patently illegal power grab that hurts American communities and flouts the checks and balances that are hallmarks of our democracy, Anthony Romero, the ACLUs executive director, said in a statement Friday afternoon.
The ACLU said that it will argue in the lawsuit that the emergency powers Trump used to make the declaration cannot be used to build a border wall. Those powers were meant for military construction projects, like overseas military airfields in wartime, that are necessary to support the emergency use of armed forces, the ACLU said in the statement.
It was widely expected that Trumps decision to declare a national emergency in order to fund construction of a border wall would prompt legal challenges. Trump himself acknowledged in his Friday morning speech announcing the move that he will face lawsuits.
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This is why I support the ACLU..............................
November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough......................
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)turbinetree
(24,703 posts)splat
(2,294 posts)DownriverDem
(6,229 posts)The more the merrier!
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)RKP5637
(67,111 posts)DownriverDem
(6,229 posts)litigation begin.
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,460 posts)vsrazdem
(2,177 posts)are not directly impacted. We shall see though. I hope I am wrong.
oldsoftie
(12,558 posts)vsrazdem
(2,177 posts)projects they were supposed to do. If he tries taking funds slotted for disaster relief those states could sue. Also I think congress could sue as he is usurping their powers.
akraven
(1,975 posts)They'll take his border wall and shove it up his fat ass.
raccoon
(31,111 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,743 posts)Sue 'em till the cows come home. And then keep suing them! Traitorous, racist, anti-American bastards.