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Pelosi Warns Republicans: A Democrat President Could Declare a "National Emergency" on Guns

Oh sure. Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell threw up his hands and told President Trump to sign the damned bill and declare a "national emergency" to fund your damned wall.

But, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi fired a shot across the bow of the USS Republicans in a news conference this afternoon that a Democrat president can play the "national emergency" game, too.

To a reporter's question, she warned that if Trump goes down this road she could see a future Democrat president delaring a "national emergency" over gun violence.

"Want to talk about a national emergency? Let's talk about today, the one-year anniversary of another manifestation of the epidemic of gun violence in America," Pelosi said at a press conference, referencing the Parkland, Florida school shooting that left 17 dead last year. "That's a national emergency. Why don't you declare that emergency, Mr. President? I wish you would."

"But a Democratic president can do that," Pelosi said. "A Democratic president can declare a national emergencies as well. The precedent that the president is setting here is something that should be met with great unease and dismay by the Republicans."

https://www.newsweek.com/nancy-pelosi-democratic-president-national-emergency-gun-violence-donald-1332074

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windinhishair · 61-69, M

Pelosi is right on this one. If the GOP lets Trump declare a false national emergency unsupported by fact, a Democratic president, backed by much better and actual facts, could declare a national emergency on gun violence, or global climate change, or any number of other issues.

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easterniowegin · 51-55, M

@windinhishair so in your mind declaring an "emergency" to improve public safety by securing our nation's border is equivalent to declaring an "emergency" to violate the 2nd Amendment rights of citizens?? 🤔

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@easterniowegin It isn't an emergency at the border. None of the data supports an emergency, which will be heard in the courts as it will be immediately contested.

I didn't say I support a national emergency on other issues, only that if Trump gets away with declaring a false one, there will be others in the future that are better supported by actual facts.

easterniowegin · 51-55, M

@windinhishair there will be no amount of data to allow an executive to override a Constitutional amendment. Smdh

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@easterniowegin If you let Trump get away with a false emergency, you may find out whether there is or not.

easterniowegin · 51-55, M

@windinhishair so you still dont understand the impact that an attack on the 2nd A would have.

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@easterniowegin And you apparently don't understand the impact that an attack on the constitutional authority of congress to appropriate funds would have. To give that power to the president overrides their direct authority, and it could easily be turned against things that you support. That's the whole point. We can't go there.

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@windinhishair You mean like the $1.7 billion little barry sent to Iraq?

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@sunsporter1649 You mean Iraq's own money? Doesn't take a congressional appropriation to give a country back what is theirs.

CookieLuvsBunny · 31-35, F

@windinhishair @sunsporter1649 Where was this angst when President Obama was signing executive orders every time someone farted and many of those orders were clearly illegal?

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@CookieLuvsBunny There was plenty of condemnation at the time, some of it justified. But Trump has taken it orders of magnitude beyond anything Obama did, and Trumpettes just shrug and say MAGA.

CookieLuvsBunny · 31-35, F

@windinhishair I saw almost no condemnation and a whole lot of kowtowing to the Obama administration

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@CookieLuvsBunny Republicans bitched and moaned for years.

CookieLuvsBunny · 31-35, F

@windinhishair A few did but most capitulated. Every president and party is going to push the envelope as far as he/she thinks they can. The Democrats were very successful with Obama because they could and did play the race issue

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@CookieLuvsBunny Obama was black. Republicans couldn't stand having a black president. That's hardly playing the race card.

CookieLuvsBunny · 31-35, F

@windinhishair That is an untrue ad hominem attack

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@CookieLuvsBunny It was an idiotic response to having a black president, I agree.

CookieLuvsBunny · 31-35, F

@windinhishair Calling a group of people racists is a way of shutting down a debate you can't win

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@CookieLuvsBunny There was a racist response to the black president by the opposition party. No getting around that. It certainly wasn't by everyone, but it was clearly along party lines.

CookieLuvsBunny · 31-35, F

@windinhishair Bullshit

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@CookieLuvsBunny You can choose not to see it, but it doesn't mean it didn't happen.

CookieLuvsBunny · 31-35, F

@windinhishair A man that has never actually held a job was elected President. I don't believe his race held him back

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@CookieLuvsBunny Not sure where you got that. He had far more experience than the current president, and it shows.

CookieLuvsBunny · 31-35, F

@windinhishair Obama never held an actual job outside of being a Senator from Illinois for about 10 minutes

windinhishair · 61-69, M

Among other jobs, Obama taught law at the University of Chicago, practiced law as a lawyer in a law firm, was a state senator prior to becoming the junior Senator from Illinois in the Senate. Apparently those don't count as jobs to you?

CookieLuvsBunny · 31-35, F

@windinhishair There is no record of him ever teaching a law class at any university or of him ever doing any legal work for any law firm and there is actually no record of him ever obtaining a law degree

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