"President Trump is manufacturing a crisis and declaring a made-up 'national emergency' in order to seize power and subvert the constitution," said California Governor Gavin Newsome. President Trump said he expected a legal fight and predicted he would prevail. "We will have a national emergency, and we will then be sued," he said Friday. POWER GRABMr Trump invoked the 1976 National Emergencies Act after Congress refused to allocate his requested $5.7 billion for a wall in a spending bill. The emergencies act "does not provide any explicit limitations on what does and does not constitute a national emergency," Daskal told AFP.

Source: Daily Nation February 16, 2019 03:56 UTC