February 15, 2019

President signs poison-loaded "compromise" spending bill

Well, that was a disaster.  Trump signed the poison-loaded spending bill.

Worse yet, he signed it before declaring a national emergency.  See, the clever Dems inserted a statement that the president could not use contingency funds from other agencies to build the wall.  So if Trump does use those funds it strengthens the case for the legal challenge.

Had he declared the emergency first, his legal position would be slightly better, since the declaration would have been made before the bill became law, so in theory trying to bar the president retroactively would make it an "ex post facto" law--something specifically prohibited by the Constitution.

Of course Democrat pols and judges have long-since stopped claiming that the Constitution is the "supreme law of the land," so the Constitution is probably toast anyway.

This was a great country while it lasted.

UPDATE:   One of the networks reported that he'd signed the bill before his Rose Garden speech, in which he said "I will be declaring a national emergency."  However, another source reports that he hadn't signed the bill before the speech, and in fact signed the emergency declaration before signing the bill.  I'll try to pin that down and will post the findings.

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