re: #123 Eclectic Cyborg

Imagine if Obama forcibly took…nevermind.

Mr. Johnson is not the only one who noticed that “emergency powers” crap. Lawrence Tribe cites the same Atlantic article I did above in a tweet just now.

To seize that land and enforce any putative emergency order, he would have to use the Army (which is allowed under the emergency powers act in question). At that instant, we would have a constitutional crisis. A) The Army refuses orders (sworn to uphold the Constitution, not the President), and we have a de facto military dictatorship, B) Some elements of the Army comply and others do not, effectively pitting Army formations against each other (Civil War Part Deux), C) The whole Army complies and landowners revolt and the streets are filled with millions of protestors.

BREAKING NEWS: Trump just threatened to use his “emergency powers” to deploy the military to build his Great Wall without permission from Congress. This deserves much more attention than it’s getting — so far. Watch this space.https://t.co/gJQhxk5pUB

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) January 4, 2019