Emergency? Hah! Here’s a letter I just sent to my US senators, and I encourage everyone who reads these words to do likewise with their own:
I have chosen the topic “Other” for this message, because it’s about something that legislators hardly ever have to deal with — the fundamental structure of our democracy — and thus didn’t appear on your drop-down list.
It is abundantly clear to anyone interested in reality that there is NO national emergency on our southern border. President Trump admitted as much himself mere moments after declaring one when he noted (accurately, for a change) “I didn’t have to do this.”
No, he didn’t. And shouldn’t have. And if separation of powers is to mean anything — if Congress is going to continue to be a co-equal branch of the US government — he cannot be allowed to operate like a dictator, co-opting Congress’s power of the purse whenever he feels like it.
I urge you in the strongest possible terms to exercise your independence as a member of the co-equal legislative branch to vote to reject his false claim that we are facing a national emergency.
Emergency? Hah! Here’s a letter I just sent to my US senators, and I encourage everyone who reads these words to do likewise with their own:
I have chosen the topic “Other” for this message, because it’s about something that legislators hardly ever have to deal with — the fundamental structure of our democracy — and thus didn’t appear on your drop-down list.
It is abundantly clear to anyone interested in reality that there is NO national emergency on our southern border. President Trump admitted as much himself mere moments after declaring one when he noted (accurately, for a change) “I didn’t have to do this.”
No, he didn’t. And shouldn’t have. And if separation of powers is to mean anything — if Congress is going to continue to be a co-equal branch of the US government — he cannot be allowed to operate like a dictator, co-opting Congress’s power of the purse whenever he feels like it.
I urge you in the strongest possible terms to exercise your independence as a member of the co-equal legislative branch to vote to reject his false claim that we are facing a national emergency.