Against the backdrop of President’s Day, 14 states lead by bastions of Liberal thought — California and New York — have united to file an ill-advised lawsuit challenging Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration.
“Today, on Presidents Day, we take President Trump to court to block his misuse of presidential power,” California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in a statement. President Trump “is willing to manipulate the Office of the Presidency to engage in unconstitutional theater performed to convince his audience that he is committed to his ‘beautiful’ border wall. We’re suing President Trump to stop him from unilaterally robbing taxpayer funds lawfully set aside by Congress for the people of our states.”
Joining California in the suit are Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Virginia.
“There Is No National Emergency”
Becerra’s statement slammed the president’s justification for a national emergency as a “hyped crisis.”
“Unlawful southern border entries are at their lowest point in 20 years, immigrants are less likely than native-born citizens to commit crimes, and illegal drugs are more likely to come through official ports of entry,” the attorney general’s statement said.
“The only national emergency is the president’s trafficking in lies and deceit,” Connecticut Attorney General William Tong said in a statement earlier Monday.
The lawsuit is in response to Trump saying that he intends to bypass Congress by declaring a national emergency to build a border wall along the nation’s southern border. This, even after Congress has repeatedly declined to give the president billions to build the border barriers that were such a huge part of his 2016 campaign.
Of course Trump saw this play coming, and he had predicted the lawsuit last week. He has slammed the Ninth Circuit multiple times as “disgraceful” and politically biased. California has repeatedly challenged Trump in court. Becerra has filed at least 45 lawsuits against the administration.
Many legal scholars do not agree with Trump’s opponents who insist that his emergency declaration falls outside of constitutional bounds. In a rambling riff on the question, delivered as an aside to his declaration of emergency last Friday, Trump predicted the matter would be appealed to the US supreme court – where given the current make-up of the Court, he would likely prevail.
I am more than glad that Arizona is not on this list of liberal Americans.
They can go to H—l and back as far as I’m concerned, he is the President and he can do as he likes..Just ask the Muslim, he changed lots of laws without prior knowledge of the ones who should have said nay or yea….As to the wall, I think we should STOP paying all the sanctuary states and use that money to build the wall, after all, if it wasn’t for the illegals we wouldn’t need a wall…So, all you brainless idiots, who declared their states Sanctuaries, fork over the money to feed, clothe and house these Terrorists……YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A PITIFUL BUNCH OF TRAITORS…..
There are better National Emergencies that should be invoked. 1. Massive numbers of gun violence and deaths by firearms. 2. The rapidly advancing environmental catastrophe brought on by mankind and it’s effect on climate change. 3. The destructive influences on the rule of law brought about since 9/11, and especially during Trump’s presidency.
This “national emergency” is just another ploy by Trump to save his own hide by distracting any scrutiny of his unsavory behaviors, both in the past and continuing to this day
The lawsuits are a Marxist trick to continue to confuse many Americans who need to be reminded that they are superior to Hillary’s Deplorables. Also to throw a smokescreen around the mess these states arei on financially, morally and also relying on illegal aiiens for their labor and their votes
we need the wall immediately
build the wall know
I don’t understand why the so called conservative party ,don’t react more with guts and show the truth about ,this states the way governs themselves .with high crimes ,high taxes ,lot of poverty, lot of drug user, lot dirty streets and parks .and pretty soon we are goin to live like bowery street in new York in the 1960. why don’t show or talk about the way look were before ,this cancer of the society take root with this socialist party why they not show those country that are socialist they live and the way they were and ask the American people ,they want to live that way .this people everything that touch destroys .these people have not GOD fear I want to stop here because my pitcher of this country that I see is very dark.