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Declaring a national emergency is well within his presidential powers. Doesn't matter if he plays golf. Presidents play golf during wars. The two aren't mutually exclusive.
I try not to engage with you often but the issue isn't that he can do it, its that he's using it for something that isn't even a "crisis". The point about what happens if Kamala or Bernie were to declare a national emergency on climate change or taxes is true and Republicans know it. McConnell knows it. They've been walking a tightrope based on this idea that as long as they aren't too blatant hopefully when the Dems get Power again they can argue/bully them into not doing what they want because of "norms". Its one of the main reasons they have been chipping away at the judicial branch because they think they can manipulate government from there as a weaker party. This though..... this sets precedent that forget your decision I'm going to do what I want. I don't see how that helps them long term when the Dems are poised to elect a progressive candidate one way or the other and next election is a tough one for them even without a blue wave.
A Criminal Justice National Emergency
A Equal Tax National Emergency
A New Green Deal National Emergency
A Healthcare National Emergency
Where does it stop, and what happens if those national emergencies are popular, unlike Trumps Wall? All of sudden you got fertile ground for some new deal legislation being implemented by the executive branch exclusively.....