President Trump has threatened to use his emergency powers as president to build his $5 billion vanity wall. A series of laws gives extraordinary emergency powers to the president — in a true emergency. To some extent, Congress has been willing to rein in a president’s use of emergency powers, but only rarely. Even before Trump, Roberts voted with the court’s four liberals to uphold most of the Affordable Care Act. What would Roberts do if Trump spuriously asserted emergency powers to order the building of a wall in defiance of the usual legislative and budgetary progress?

Source: Huffington Post January 07, 2019 16:41 UTC