Trump might have a solid case for emergency declaration, analysts say

Though Trump himself suggested there is no real emergency, courts are unlikely to second-guess a presidents’ broad leeway Many legal analys... thumbnail 1 summary

Though Trump himself suggested there is no real emergency, courts are unlikely to second-guess a presidents’ broad leeway

Many legal analysts who watched Donald Trump declare a national emergency over immigration on Friday thought the president had weak legal grounds for doing so. In particular, many thought Trump hurt his own case by admitting, right there in the White House Rose Garden: “I didn’t need to do this, but I’d rather do it much faster.”

“This quote should be the first sentence of the first paragraph of every complaint filed this afternoon,” tweeted George Conway, a top Washington lawyer and the husband of Trump aide Kellyanne Conway.

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from US news | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2T6O3vW

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