Trump: I'm nearing decision on emergency declaration to build wall

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25. Shitler can do this. Whether he will is another matter, as is what the official response will be.

One member of the JCoS (I believe he is) was criticizing this recent gambit either Friday or yesterday. And it is a frightening thing to contemplate, especially if the rethugs sit on their hands as usual. Everyone was asking Friday where McConnell was when he missed that Rose Garden press* conference. He was sitting in his office with the Rose Garden in plain sight. He was aware that this was going on (does anyone actually believe that his COS or other staffers wouldn't have known about that and advised him earlier?).

If he does go through with his threat, he can definitely impose immediate shutdowns of the internet and impose media blackouts. This is a threat I believe we need to take very, very seriously. I saw that Schiff was just swatting this away as casually as you'd swat a pesky fly out of your face, but the whole thing could go off the rails pretty quick. We could be tied up in court battles ending at the SCOTUS - where the Rs are in the majority. Many of those seated on the bench adhere to the theory of the Unitary Executive, i.e., absolute and total executive power over all aspects of the government. tRump's nominee to the AG is one of them (though not yet confirmed), as is AAG Whittaker. And I believe McConnell is probably of that particular ideological theory. At any rate, he's using it to let Shitler pull his current shutdown stunt. And, of course, we all know that he exercised his own UE "right" when he failed to advance Merrick Garland's nomination to the bench, all the while decrying how Obama was a renegade abusing his Presidential right* by utilizing the Executive Order options.