Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) came out against President Trump’s border wall national emergency declaration this weekend, and in doing so he provided what is likely to be the 51st and decisive vote against it. The national emergency would then move forward. But it’s worth taking stock of how significant this moment is — and how it could potentially impact the battle that actually will decide the fate of the national emergency declaration: the legal case. However people feel about this particular national emergency declaration, Congress did give the presidency rather broad authority to declare such emergencies. He is actually predicting that the Supreme Court will strike down the national emergency declaration if and when it comes to that point, and he says Congress’s votes will matter.

Source: Washington Post March 04, 2019 16:13 UTC