A.M. Roundup: New York among 16 states suing over Trump’s national emergency

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7 Responses

  1. beepee says:

    Relative to the lawsuit against how the wall is funded:
    (1) Where did the funds come from to finance this lawsuit. I, John Q. Public, never authorized this expenditure.
    (2) Why is the gov’t in Albany worried about Federal issues (i.e. Homeland Security) when they can’t take care of NYS’s issues (ex. exodus out of the state [taxes, taxes, taxes], not really being “Open For Business”, state of our infrastructure, mishandled fracking opportunities, etc ). The lawsuit seems like time and money wasted – Oh wait, we’ll just raise some obscure surcharge to pay for that too.

  2. beepee says:

    Why are you burying the Comments down into these obscure links?

  3. joeschmoe says:

    Why must NY get involved in a case it knows its going to lose and cost taxpayers millions. The NEA states it authorizes the president to declare a national emergency, which declaration activates emergency powers contained in other federal statutes. Under NEA Section 301, statutory emergency authorities enabled by the national emergency declaration cannot be exercised until the president specifies the provisions of law under which the president or other officials will act. This is all been outlined and presented. Even if (and they will) take this to court and California will go “judge shopping” and it will get to the 9th district and then go to the Supreme Court, it is there that the Supreme Court will rule under the constitution that the President does have the power to do so. Why all the time and effort? NY is going to lose…

  4. taxpayer says:

    Why do liberal states think they have the right to tell the federal government how to spend its funds? NY State sues everything to do with Trump. Everyone knows you can sue for anyth9ng. But whether you have legal standing over national security decisions does not fall into an individual state’s realm. Utlimately Trump has the right legally and constitutionally to do what he is doing. Tie it up in court but eventually the SCOTUS will rule in Trumps favor, hopefully expedite all these false suits because the states are just trying to delay action until Trump is out of office.

  5. taxpayer says:

    Illegal immigration is a national emergency when you have tens of thousands lined up to invade our sovereignty. Congress failed to act in a responsible manner by approving funds with stipulations they could only be used for an area subject to local government approval (all democrat controlled areas). That proved congress acted in bad faith and Trump had no choice but to declare a national emergency. The US Constitution gives him the right to do so, without congress approval. The declaration of a national emergency also legally gives him discretion over sevral areas of the budget to get funds from to alleviate these national security concerns. All you NY liberals don’t complain when Cuomo staels money everu year from different agency surplus funds to fund his special projects, all without state legislative approval. It’s the same thing .