But all y'all prefer to shove responsibility AWAY from yourselves. Well, that's the petard on which you hung yourselves.
...George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley points out, “This crisis is not the making of Donald Trump. This is the making of Congress.”
The reason the executive branch has so much authority is, quite simply, that Congress has given it to him—136 times, to be precise....
... Executive power of this magnitude is a construction of the Congress. It is built out of years of slow delegation of authority, where the presidency has amassed a trove of powers that previously did not belong to the executive branch.
And, as presidents slowly began to exercise those powers in the face of an increasingly idle legislature, there was almost no resistance....
...what Trump is doing with the wall is substantively different, in that he is using already authorized and appropriated funds for border protection. Rather than ordering new spending for a cause never authorized by Congress, as Obama did, Congress has already given Trump this money with limitations so loose that he can, quite legally, redirect it for a cause already authorized in law (the Secure Fence Act, passed in 2006, with the support of Chuck Schumer and former Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama)....
Enjoy swinging in the breeze, boys.
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