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iluvtennis

(19,911 posts)
Tue Feb 5, 2019, 02:03 AM Feb 2019

This is the real reason GOP Senators are panicking about Trump wanting to declare nat'l emergency


@JoyAnnReid
Trump is the guy who goes into a Blackjack game betting his mortgage money against the House, having only played cards with people who let him win and not actually knowing the rules of Blackjack. (And also the guy whose three casinos touted in The Art of the Deal went bankrupt.)



@ThePlumLineGS
If Trump declares a national emergency to build the wall, Nancy Pelosi can initiate a process that may *force* a Senate vote on it.

This is the real reason GOP Senators are panicking.

I talked to legal expert @LizaGoitein, who laid out how this works:






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This is the real reason GOP Senators are panicking about Trump wanting to declare nat'l emergency (Original Post) iluvtennis Feb 2019 OP
What's not to like?! Mme. Defarge Feb 2019 #1
Not to mention a segment of Americans too poor to receive healthcare IS a real emergency ck4829 Feb 2019 #2
+1 dalton99a Feb 2019 #7
Okay then! Cha Feb 2019 #3
Once again, never fear, joshdawg Feb 2019 #4
Any chance of a summary for those of us lacking a key to the paywall? quakerboy Feb 2019 #5
the meat scipan Feb 2019 #8
Interesting quakerboy Feb 2019 #10
Its all smoke and mirrors from trump and putin duforsure Feb 2019 #6
The vote would be on the validity of the declared national emergency EleanorR Feb 2019 #9

ck4829

(35,096 posts)
2. Not to mention a segment of Americans too poor to receive healthcare IS a real emergency
Tue Feb 5, 2019, 02:34 AM
Feb 2019

And a Democratic President could declare it as such.

Cha

(298,049 posts)
3. Okay then!
Tue Feb 5, 2019, 02:36 AM
Feb 2019

The goputin senate doesn't want to be on record wanting a wall?

Most Americans are against the wall, I've read.

joshdawg

(2,653 posts)
4. Once again, never fear,
Tue Feb 5, 2019, 03:37 AM
Feb 2019

the cowardly republican senators will vote for trump's wall.
I have no faith whatsoever that ANY republican will do the right thing. They haven't for decades, why would they do it now? They may all badmouth trump, but they will always back him 100%. Cowards!!!

scipan

(2,368 posts)
8. the meat
Tue Feb 5, 2019, 03:38 PM
Feb 2019
Under the National Emergencies Act, or NEA, both chambers of Congress can pass a resolution terminating any presidentially declared national emergency.

What Pelosi can do

Elizabeth Goitein, who has researched this topic extensively for the Brennan Center for Justice, tells me that if Pelosi exercises this option, it will ultimately require the Senate to vote on it in some form as well. The NEA stipulates that if one chamber (Pelosi’s House) passes such a resolution, which it easily could do, the other (McConnell’s Senate) must act on it within a very short time period — forcing GOP senators to choose whether to support it.


It also says the senate could vote NOT to act on it, which would still put each senator on record. And the R senators definitely don't want to be put in that position.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
6. Its all smoke and mirrors from trump and putin
Tue Feb 5, 2019, 07:39 AM
Feb 2019

For distraction away from them, and watch him promote putin tonight and probably announce more meetings with the terrorist putin soon. That's where he's getting everything from now that he's doing to this country, putin, yet wants others to believe he's been hard on him, and that's laughable, and absurdly untrue. He'll bait and switch again tonight with claims things that'll sound great only to really switch to something totally different for putin. Republicans are screwed as long as he's in office, and 2020 will be a nightmare for them.

EleanorR

(2,397 posts)
9. The vote would be on the validity of the declared national emergency
Tue Feb 5, 2019, 03:52 PM
Feb 2019

From the Washington Post article-

GOP senators would have to decide between going on record in favor of a presidential declaration of a national emergency for something that everyone knows is based on false pretenses, a move that would be opposed by two-thirds of the country, or opposing it and possibly forcing a Trump veto (which they then would have to decide whether to override), enraging Trump’s base.

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