A Dangerous Farce: Trump’s Emergency Declaration

No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of [the Constitution’s] provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government — Ex Parte Milligan, 1866

And so, the farce has inevitably come to this. Stymied by Congressional opposition to funding his beloved wall, President Trump has declared a national emergency, theoretically freeing funds from other, worthier projects. Rather than treat the President’s action for what it is — a bald faced end run around Constitutional…