President may have undercut his own argument that the border emergency is, well, an emergency
If there were a hall of fame of legal self-owns, there would be a spot of honor for a line Friday from President Donald Trump as he announced that he would declare a national emergency to fund a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
To do so, Trump plans in part to use the National Emergency Act of 1976, but he undercut his argument that it was an emergency at all.
“I didn’t need to do this,” Trump said from the Rose Garden, “but I’d rather do it much faster.”
View the complete February 15 article by Todd Ruger on The Roll Call website here.