Which is all I have been saying.
But it was what I was saying.
We can agree, mostly, but it was used, and when SCOTUS ruled against Lincoln he ignored them. When the SCOTUS did recognize such a thing, what the SCOTUS recognized is that some function of government must be able to act in an emergency, and that the only one designed to so such a thing was the Executive. They believed it was limited and that Congress was its check. As I said, read the rulings, they are interesting.
I noted later that I liked the National Emergency Powers Act and why. Defining and limiting what such powers entail is a good thing, as well as setting an expiration date if action isn't taken to renew such things so things like folks being unable to own gold would end... and in the end sanity would prevail.
It's never been my intention to say that Trump can use this to build a wall, because I think that if he tried it would fail miserably. Nor do I think it would because he knows that if he tries it would fail, miserably. It has always been my intention to say that they exist, especially so now with the Act, and told you that the blanket statement was factually incorrect.
