Democrats prepare legal battle against Trump's national emergency declaration

The Democratic leaders of the US Congress have warned that they will use every available means to block President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration., which seeks to divert billions of dollars to build a wall on the southern border.

"President's illegal declaration on a non-existent crisis seriously violates our Constitution and makes the United States a less secure country", since Trump would use the funds necessary for "the security of our armed forces and our country," said the head of the legislature Nancy Pelosi.

Trump's decision "usurps the power" of the legislator to control spending, they will therefore use every means of Congress, the courts and the public to block this "illegal declaration", affirmed the Pelosi Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives and the Senate, Chuck Schumer.

Trump announced the national emergency declaration to allocate funds from the $ 8 billion military budget to the construction of a wall at the US-Mexico border, arguing that it would stop drugs and gangs entering the country.

For Pelosi, the declaration modifies the state's balance of power, in addition to being a "quicker way of getting taxpayers to pay the bill, after Congress has not allowed to do.

In the same sense, the governor of California, Democrat Gavin Newsom said that "our message to the White House is simple and clear: California will see (Trump) in court."

Newsom He claimed that the US president "It creates a crisis by declaring a" national emergency "invented to seize power and subvert the Constitution." "This" emergency "is a national disgrace, it plans to shut down and divert funds used by the California police to conduct counter-narcotics operations and fight drug cartels to build their wall," Newsom added. , whose government is a big critic. of the federal administration.

While California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said that "no one in the United States is above the law, not even the president has the power to act so frivolous". Even many members of the Republican Party have expressed their discomfort with the precedent that will create the declaration.

According to badysts, Democrats seek to block Trump's declaration in Congress and in court concurrently. They noted that the House of Representatives and the Senate can adopt the so-called joint resolution to end the state of emergency, if they believe that the President is acting irresponsibly or that the threat has been met. already dissipated.

The Texas Democrat Representative and Congress Hispanic Caucus Leader Joaquín Castro said his party had a majority in the lower house.It is almost certain that a resolution to this effect will be approved and that it will then have to be voted on in the Senate within 18 days.

If the Democratic minority in the Senate gets the support of some Republicans to approve the resolution of the joint termination, it would be pbaded on to the executive, who could then veto it.unless approved by the so-called supermajorities (two-thirds) of the House of Representatives and the Senate.

With information from Notimex