“I didn’t need to do this, but I’d rather do it much faster,” Trump said about a declaration with the potential to redefine the relationship between the presidency and Congress.
That admission, said Liza Goitein of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School, could dramatically complicate the Trump administration’s standing once the emergency declaration ends up in the courts.
“If the courts are being asked to review whether or not there’s a real emergency here, and the president is on record saying essentially ‘no,’ that’s pretty significant,” said Goitein. “Even a court inclined to be deferential will have to take note of this admission.”
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