Probably the most lucid legal argument confirming the President’s power to build the wall comes from Jonathan Turley, who has argued cases at the Supreme Court:

“Why Trump will win the wall fight“

Turley’s take on ‘the limited role of courts in challenges to federal law’…“It is not the task of judges to sit as a super legislature to question…agendas of…political branches.”

His article points out that Congress legislated the powers President Trump just used.

“This is the making of Congress. For decades, Congress frittered away control over its authority, including the power of the purse. I have testified before Congress, warning about the expansion of executive power and the failure of Congress to guard its own authority. The two primary objections have been Congress giving presidents largely unchecked authority and undedicated money. The wall funding controversy today is a grotesque result of both of these failures.”

BOOM!

And his condemnation of Congress doesn’t stop there. He (rightly) points out that “Congress has yielded more and more power to the executive branch over decades. In many areas, it has reduced the legislative branch to a mere pedestrian in government, leaving real governing decisions to a kind of “fourth branch” of federal agencies. For their part, presidents have thus become more and more bold in circumventing Congress. When Obama gave a State of the Union proclaiming his intention to bypass Congress after it failed to pass immigration reform, Democrats applauded loudly.”

(But then, of course, that was Obama…so it was okay.)

Now, irony of ironies – Democrats condemn the emergency declaration as “…an effort to use executive power to get what Congress would not give Trump”…but then go to the courts “…to use judicial power to do much the same thing“…since Congress evidently can’t even convince it’s own members to override this latest Presidential action.

The Democrat Party is the poster-child for political hypocrisy, and Turley points it out.

(Not that anyone needed help in recognizing this latest pathetic ploy for what it is.)

If the article isn’t convincing, consider this:

For a federal court to rule against this emergency action is to rule

• President’s aren’t empowered to do what they’re lawfully empowered to do, and
• Congress isn’t empowered to legislate.

Can’t wait to see how this turns out.