What makes this so odd is that even though the Senate and House have now voted to terminate Trump’s national emergency, he actually can veto the measure, and his emergency will proceed. But over and over, Trump commanded them to see this as only about border security, and about him. Multiple lawsuits underway argue that Trump’s national emergency violated the Constitution by using the emergency to secure funds Congress had explicitly denied him. The declaration of the national emergency after that, similarly, was all about projecting action and control. But the national emergency is deeply unpopular, and the legal arguments for it are deeply absurd.

Source: Washington Post March 15, 2019 14:13 UTC