actual emergency. the lawsuit states explaining rationale for the president the president candidly admitted the emergency declaration reflected his personal preference to construct the law more quickly rather than an urgent need for it to be built immediately. they cite this statement he made at the white house on friday. listen. i could do the wall over a longer period of time. i didn t need to do this but i d rather do it much faster. the two arguments there, not an emergency, i didn t need to do this, number two, he can t spend money congress won t spend. which is more likely to sway the courts. i think actually the stronger argument legally is going to be the argument he has diverted the will of congress, he is misusing statutory authority as opposed to the argument that there isn t actually a national emergency.
constitution and declare an emergency where there is one. we have the lowest level of illegal border crossings in 45 years and more border patrol agents in history. it isn t happening. there isn t a national emergency. the president said he didn t have to do this and went to play golf. it s pretty clear he s doing something congress explicitly forbid him from doing, building the wall. his senior advisor, stephen miller says differently and says the law gives any president the right to do this. let me play his reasoning. they passed a law saying specifically the president could have this authority in the plain statute, a discussion congress made. people don t like that, they can address it. it s the national emergency act. it does say it requires without regard to any other provision of
he thought the wall could be built around september of 2020. how that is an emergency, 19 months from now, sounds like a political emergency. is there no way to expedite this in the courts so we don t have to wait 20 months to find out the outcome and it can happen sooner so it doesn t have to play in 2020? the courts operate in different cases. many states filed this first case and there will be more cases. it s hard to say which cases filed in which districts will take how long. the courts can expedite it. they re not going to expedite it for political reasons. the judicial branch is on a different schedule than the political side of things. while they might expedite it to some degree if they can, it makes sense for the states. the first issue for the states is whether or not they have standing to bring this case. standing sometimes itself can take a while to litigate.
ploy on a couple of levels. the country doesn t want the wall. when the president sets up a fight between the presidency and congress, that s much stronger footing for the president, i think you see that in the polls. the country is split who should be running the country because people have a leo pin of congress. they may have a leo pin of trump but a lower one of congress. congress has earned that over the yearsn second, the president deep down knows he can t build a wall from sea to shining sea. what he wants is the issue in the 2020 election. he wants to say, democrats kept me from doing this and why democrats and rapists are pouring in, all the rhetoric. i don t think it s a great strategy but it s the best strategy he has. this almost guarantees he ll have it for the 2020 election. there you go. i want to know about the timeline. when stephen miller was on this weekend on the news show he said
law, the president may undertake military construction projects, what he is trying to do. the statute was passed in congress in 1974, to limit presidential power and make sure the president doesn t do something like this, contravene the will of congress and say, okay, congress, you said i can t do something, i can t spend money building a wall, i just don t care, will flagrantly disregard the constitution and go around you. that has never been done in the 59 national emergencies in this country. never once said congress said no, but i won t do it anyway. if this is about seizing the power of the purse, where do states attorney general come in? isn t this in part congress s battle to fight? it has in part congress s battle to fight. but it s been very hard to fight. but the state attorneys general are the firewall. we re what stands between this president and his attack on our