Hamilton, in the Federalist, shoots down Trump’s ‘emergency’

President Trump’s assertion of supposed emergency powers to appropriate military money for a border wall runs directly afoul of the spirit and intended design of the Constitution.

This is important. Others like David French have convincingly and eloquently argued that Trump’s re-appropriation of taxpayer dollars runs afoul of specific provisions within the interplay between existing statutes and the Constitution. They are absolutely correct, but I’m making a different point.