{"id":8348,"date":"2019-02-14T16:15:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T21:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/trumps-abuse-of-emergency-powers-demands-congressional-action\/"},"modified":"2019-02-14T16:15:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T21:15:19","slug":"trumps-abuse-of-emergency-powers-demands-congressional-action","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ko\/press\/trumps-abuse-of-emergency-powers-demands-congressional-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Abuse of Emergency Powers Demands Congressional Action"},"template":"","class_list":["post-8348","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Americans will not tolerate a President who abuses the powers of his office. Congress must act swiftly and decisively to check any imagined emergency that President Trump is attempting to use as a pretext to bypass the legislative branch of government and build an unnecessary wall along our border with Mexico.","featured_image":"","press_type":236,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":8296}"],"related_issues":[149,2082],"related_work":false,"location":46},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<strong>\uacf5\ud1b5 \uc6d0\uc778\uc758 \uc131\uba85 \ud68c\uc7a5 \uce74\ub80c \ud638\ubc84\ud2b8 \ud50c\ub9b0<\/strong>\r\n\r\nAmericans will not tolerate a President who abuses the powers of his office. Congress must act swiftly and decisively to check any imagined emergency that President Trump is attempting to use as a pretext to bypass the legislative branch of government and build an unnecessary wall along our border with Mexico.\r\n\r\nPresident Trump has reportedly reached a spending deal with Congress to avert a second government shutdown this year, but the deal does not include the full $5.7 billion he wants to build an unnecessary wall along our border with Mexico. The White House has now announced that President Trump plans to disregard the constitutionally-required budgeting process and declare a national emergency in an attempt to build the wall, simply to make good on a call-and-response line he used during his campaign rallies \u2013 part and parcel with his demagoguery of immigrants.\r\n\r\nCongress cannot let this abuse of the National Emergencies Act stand. Ironically, the Act itself is a post-Watergate reform, enacted to reassert Congress\u2019 constitutional role in checking and safeguarding against authoritarian abuses of power.\r\n\r\nCongress must put the good of the country before the good of the party and check this power grab by President Trump. In the last Congress, the Republican majorities refused to curb a long list of abuses by Trump and it has only served to embolden him. This manufactured \u201cemergency\u201d must be stopped in its tracks by Congress. And if Senate Majority Leader McConnell and his fellow Republicans in the Senate refuse to do so then members must turn to the courts to halt this flagrant abuse of presidential emergency powers.\r\n\r\nThe legal rationale likely to be used by the White House to justify its \u201cstate of emergency\u201d wall construction is deeply flawed. Under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/10\/2808\">statute<\/a> granting a President authority to initiate military construction projects in the event of a national emergency, the emergency must be one that necessitates military action and only then can a construction project \u201cnecessary to support such use of the armed forces\u201d be undertaken. Any White House reliance on this provision would turn the statute on its head \u2013 the only need for the military action here is to build the construction project itself.\r\n\r\nFurther, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rand.org\/content\/dam\/rand\/pubs\/monograph_reports\/MR1251\/MR1251.AppD.pdf\">Posse Comitatus Act<\/a>, dating to reconstruction in the wake of the Civil War, prohibits military engagement in law enforcement activities with respect to civilians (including immigrants) unless Congress specifically authorizes it. So in effect, the military is prohibited by federal law from engaging in the only activity that could necessitate military construction of a border wall \u2013 enforcement of immigration laws.\r\n\r\nThe legal justification likely to be used by the White House is deeply flawed, but the fact remains that President Trump is using that unsound legal theory in order to bypass Congress, which refuses to waste billions of dollars on an ineffective wall simply to please the President. Congress cannot sit idly by while the President undermines its authority as a coequal branch of government \u2013 an authority granted in the United States Constitution to prevent authoritarian rule. History will not be kind to any member of Congress who allows the President to undermine the foundations of our democracy through the blatant misuse of the Emergency Powers Act."}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump\u2019s Abuse of Emergency Powers Demands Congressional Action - Common Cause<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ko\/press-releases\/trumps-abuse-of-emergency-powers-demands-congressional-action\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ko_KR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump\u2019s Abuse of Emergency Powers Demands Congressional Action\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ko\/\ub204\ub974\ub2e4\/trumps-abuse-of-emergency-powers-demands-congressional-action\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonCause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CC-Share-Graphic-Main9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CommonCause\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/trumps-abuse-of-emergency-powers-demands-congressional-action\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/press-releases\/trumps-abuse-of-emergency-powers-demands-congressional-action\/\",\"name\":\"Trump\u2019s Abuse of Emergency Powers Demands Congressional Action - 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