The idea that the situation at the border is truly a “national emergency” already strained credulity. In the Rose Garden, Trump issued the national emergency declaration he has been threatening for more than a month. More reading:Democrats will fight Trump’s national emergency with this obscure, nearly 67-year-old legal precedentTrump invokes emergency powers to build border wall. What exactly is a national emergency? Trump’s bewildering national emergency press conference, annotated

Source: Washington Post February 15, 2019 17:44 UTC