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Conservative Magazine's Editorial Board Just Broke With Donald Trump in a Major Way on His National Emergency Declaration

Conservative Magazine's Editorial Board Just Broke With Donald Trump in a Major Way on His National Emergency Declaration
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 10: U.S. President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House, on March 10, 2019 in Washington, DC. Trump spent the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Bech, Fla. (Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images)

Whoa.

On Thursday, the United States Senate will vote on a measure to stop President Donald Trump's emergency declaration, and one conservative magazine's editorial board is urging dissent within Republican ranks.

The National Review's editorial board on Wednesday encouraged Senate Republicans to set politics aside and rebuke Trump's power grab.


"It’s not going to be easy for Senate Republicans to vote to disapprove of President Trump’s declaration of emergency at the border. They should do it, nonetheless, on principle and out of institutional self-respect."

In the op-ed, simply entitled "Disapprove," the board raises concerns over handing Trump a green light to bypass Congress, particularly because the president himself said he "didn't have to do" it.

"The problem with the emergency declaration is that, even if it’s technically legal (a matter of debate that will go up to the Supreme Court), it is clearly pretextual and a way to do an end-run around the congressional spending power," the board wrote. "The president himself in his press conference announcing the emergency said that he didn’t have to do it, but that he wanted to build new fencing more quickly than he could without the declaration."

Senate Republicans are "in an awkward position," the board said. Though the GOP caucus supports the president's desire to erect a border wall, "they just can’t support the means he’s using to get there."

The board conceded that bucking Trump on this one policy will not ameliorate the growing disparity between congressional and executive power. "It will show, though, that at least a fraction of one of the political parties is willing to stand up for how our constitutional system is supposed to work," it stressed.

"It’s a tough vote," the board concluded, "but a worthy one."

Indeed.

Will Republicans listen?

Some people are really skeptical about giving Republicans the benefit of the doubt on the subject of principle.

Trump is still quite popular among Republican voters, and even if the measure passes the Senate, Trump will veto it. Still, a symbolic rebuke would be a powerful statement against Trump's executive overreach.

Could today's vote signal a shift in the political winds?

We will find out shortly.

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