{"id":178179,"date":"2019-02-14T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T00:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/14\/rule-1-of-trumpland-trump-will-always-choose-the-dick-move\/"},"modified":"2019-02-14T19:47:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T00:47:00","slug":"rule-1-of-trumpland-trump-will-always-choose-the-dick-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/14\/rule-1-of-trumpland-trump-will-always-choose-the-dick-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Rule 1 of Trumpland: Trump Will Always Choose the Dick Move"},"content":{"rendered":"
Rule 2 of Trumpland is: See Rule 1.<\/div>\n

Trump has announced his intention to declare a state of emergency to fund his border wall<\/a>:<\/p>\n

President Trump will declare a national emergency as early as Friday to bypass Congress and build his long-promised wall along the nation\u2019s southwestern border even as he agreed to sign a spending package that does not finance it, White House officials said Thursday.<\/p>\n

The announcement came just minutes before voting began on the spending measure, which then cleared both houses, ending a two-month war of attrition that closed much of the federal government for 35 days<\/a> and threatened a second shutdown on Friday. The Senate passed it 83 to 16, and the House followed later in the evening, 300 to 128.<\/p>\n

But if he declares a national emergency to access billions of dollars for his wall, Mr. Trump could instigate a constitutional clash over who controls the federal purse and test the bounds of presidential authority in a time of divided government. Democrats and some Republicans instantly condemned the move, with some vowing to challenge it through legislation and lawsuits.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I expect this to find its way to court, but given that 5 of the 9 Supreme Court justices are big supporters of the “Unitary Executive Theory<\/a>” when the President is a Republican, so I expect another corrupt 5-4 decision supporting Trump.<\/p>\n

Don’t worry about checks and balances though, they will reverse themselves as soon as a Democrat is back in office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rule 2 of Trumpland is: See Rule 1. Trump has announced his intention to declare a state of emergency to fund his border wall: President Trump will declare a national emergency as early as Friday to bypass Congress and build his long-promised wall along the nation\u2019s southwestern border even as he agreed to sign a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[499,573,364,438],"class_list":["post-178179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-constitution","tag-donald-trump","tag-evil","tag-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}