BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “If President Donald Trump invokes a ‘national emergency’ at the US border and uses emergency powers to bypass Congress and obtain funding to build his long-promised border wall, a battle in the courts over the questionable legality of spending those dollars would be virtually guaranteed. But the United States is no stranger to national emergencies. In fact, the US has been in a perpetual state of declared national emergency for four decades, and the country is currently under 31 concurrent states of emergency about a spectrum of international issues around the globe, according to a CNN review of documents from the Congressional Research Service and the Federal Register.”
–Ryan Struyk, “Trump’s wall would be the 32nd active national emergency,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, January 7, 2019 5:22 pm