Trump took aim at the press for questioning his authority to order businesses out of China, tweeting, „For all of the Fake News Reporters that don’t have a clue as to what the law is relative to Presidential powers, China, etc., try looking at the Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977. Case closed!“
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Trump ‘hereby’ orders U.S. business out of China. Can he do that?
President Trump’s extraordinary edict demanding U.S. companies move out of China — delivered in a series of angry tweets Friday — left industries of every stripe scrambling to understand how seriously to take the order, and how the White House might enforce it.
I ask all members of Congress — Democrat and Republican — to support this joint resolution to terminate President Trump’s unconstitutional national emergency declaration to build his border wall.
It sets a dangerous precedent and steals congressional authority. Will you sign on?
Donald Trump may not like it, but we are not an authoritarian country. We have a constitution and separation of powers. There is no „national emergency,“ and Trump cannot build his wall without congressional approval.
Will the Supreme Court stop Trump‘s national emergency?
„There‘s been virtually no litigation in the 43-history of the National Emergencies Act about that statute,“ said Steve Vladeck, a CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law.
Trump‘s full speech declaring a national emergency for border wall funding
President Trump on Feb. 15 declared a national emergency to allocate additional funding to build a wall at the southern border.
Trump‘s wall would be the 32nd active national emergency
In fact, the US has been in a perpetual state of declared national emergency for four decades, and the country is currently under 31 concurrent states of emergency about a spectrum of international issues around the globe, according to a CNN review of documents from the Congressional Research Service and the Federal Register.
Trump Plans National Emergency to Build Border Wall as Congress Passes Spending Bill
President Trump will declare a national emergency as early as Friday to bypass Congress and build his long-promised wall along the nation’s southwestern border even as he agreed to sign a spending package that does not finance it, White House officials said Thursday.
Exclusive: White House preparing draft national emergency order, has identified $7 billion for wall
The White House is preparing a draft proclamation for President Donald Trump to declare a national emergency along the southern border and has identified more than $7 billion in potential funds for his signature border wall should he go that route, according to internal documents reviewed by CNN.