Thursday, March 14, 2019

Executive powers explained one more time for the knuckleheads...

Heard the results of this news over vacation, so wanted to make sure and backlog it as Mark explained once again for the numbskulls...
Mark Levin took on the critics of President Trump’s national emergency declaration on the border crisis and defended the president’s legal power to build the wall.

“Let me try this a different way, so even slow-learning senators, radio hosts, and TV hosts can understand it,” Levin said.



“If the 1976 National Emergencies Act is unconstitutional, then multiple presidents have violated the Constitution, and Congress has done nothing and the courts have done nothing,” Levin said. “If the movement of funds under the Military Construction Codification Act of 1982 is unconstitutional, a dictatorial act, then past presidents have been dictators. But the fact of the matter is this is far more acceptable, as a constitutional matter, than the existence of these departments and agencies in the first place.”
YEP, great point. And of course the President did the RIGHT thing: VETO!
Mm-Hmm, SHAME on all 12, but especially the italicized who definitely should've known better... 
  • Lamar Alexander of Tennessee 
  • Roy Blunt of Missouri 
  • Susan Collins of Maine 
  • Mike Lee of Utah 
  • Jerry Moran of Kansas 
  • Lisa Murkowski of Alaska 
  • Rand Paul of Kentucky 
  • Rob Portman of Ohio 
  • Mitt Romney of Utah 
  • Marco Rubio of Florida 
  • Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania 
  • Roger Wicker of Mississippi
UPDATE: And veto STANDS...

House Democrats on Tuesday failed to override President Trump’s first veto as part of their battle over border security, representing a victory for the administration that allows the president's declaration of a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border to stand.
...moving forward on border security, via the wall!

Related link: House Democrats fail to override Trump’s Veto……and HERE’S the 14 Republicans who voted with them!