Trump is on solid legal ground to declare a national emergency over border crisis

borderJoe DiGenova – President Trump will have the law on his side when he uses the power of his office to secure the U.S. border with Mexico.

Congress, after the longest government shutdown in American history and weeks of negotiation, appropriated $1.375 for new physical barriers. But the bill bipartisan negotiators delivered is largely unsatisfying to both parties and will not, on its own, deliver the solutions our law enforcement professionals need.

The current political reality in Washington ensures that the crisis on our southern border will continue to go unresolved unless the executive branch steps in.

Fortunately, both the Constitution and the Congress have placed the authority to do so firmly with the President of the United States.

The pivotal Supreme Court case on executive authority is 1952’s Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. vs. Sawyer, which struck down President Harry Truman’s unilateral seizure of the American steel industry. Continue reading