A variety of legal experts weigh in on the subject, including me. Most conclude Trump may have the authority to declare an emergency, but not to spend funds and seize property for the wall.
The ACLU argues that the 40-minute detention violated the Fourth and 14th amendments.
They got nothing in return for handing Trump money except for a national emergency.
There is no good justification for what the president is doing. Republicans and conservatives need to call him out on it.
A summary of the reasons why Trump lacks the power to use emergency powers to build his border wall, and why it would cause great harm and set a dangerous precedent if he did. Other than that, it's a great idea!
Trump won't rely on Congress to fund his 200 miles of border wall.
Make no mistake about it, avoiding another shutdown is for the best.
Congressional leaders have reached a compromise. But Trump will have the final say.
Until we fundamentally reframe the immigration debate in terms of human freedom rather than fear, we're not going to see real reform.
How to ensure lack of transparency and prevent asylum seekers from accessing rights.
Currently, no more than 7 percent of green cards handed out in a single year can go to immigrants from the same country.
"We are used to seeing the federal government make decisions about our surroundings," one resident said.
Plus: New York's CBD-foods crackdown, Laura Loomer gets booted from PayPayl, and more hits from last night's speech.
He was off script, and he probably hasn't checked with his ultra-restrictionist White House aide Stephen Miller.
The president talks a good game about driving into the future, but his eyes are glued to the rear-view mirror.
Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Hewitt delivers the L.P.'s prebuttal to tonight's SOTU, while the L.A. Times asks whether Hewitt can "make a fringe party mainstream."
The president has devoted himself to a pointless, self-defeating project.
Plus: No, Virginia isn't making it legal to kill babies during labor, and why Millennials and Gen Z will rule 2020
The way the travel ban policy has been implemented both before and after the Supreme Court's decision further underscores the magnitude of the Justices' mistake.
Miller's enforcement-plus agenda is destroying Trump's presidency.
Sure, Trump and Congress have reopened Washington for three weeks, but congressional dysfunction and border-enforcement fantasia are with us for the long haul.
The shutdown rolls on, with no obvious solution in sight.
Pew survey data complicate the young/old and left/right framing of this issue.
The president's latest Twitter scare tactic to drum up support takes moments to disprove.
The commerce secretary's phony rationale for adding a citizenship question is inconsistent with the rule of law.
The op ed describes the extensive harm likely to be caused by condemning the large amounts of private property that would need to be seized to build the wall.
Some members of Congress still care about private property.
The Washington Examiner story relies on a single, anonymous source who has no evidence to support her claims. It serves only to confirm existing biases.
The event features Ilya Shapiro of the Cato Institute, and myself.
We don't even know exactly how many.
The supposed border "crisis" is already solving itself.
The ACLU blames local law enforcement after ICE detains an American-born veteran with the intent to deport him.
Federal officials are doing their best to criminalize No More Death's efforts to stop immigrants from dying while crossing into the U.S.
Rebutting Krugman, cracking on Graham, and searching in vain for "freedom" in a caucus.
Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and other major Republicans are spreading misinformation in support of the president's fixation on a border wall.
Tragedy alone is not justification enough for drastic measures.
All this anger about immigration (and a lack of sympathy for the poor people coming here) is not only cruel, but politically foolish.
The legislative branch is failing its basic constitutional duties, out of cowardly fear of a blustery president.
The Iowa congressman and his nativism are deeply at odds with the essential promise of America.
Give up your wall, Mr. President.
My book chapter on this subject from the "Cambridge Handbook of Classical Liberal Thought" is now available on SSRN.
Note: Undocumented immigrants are not wild animals.
Democrats' response did produce some good memes.
The president's Oval Office address was misleading.
An immigration primer about the figures that matter. And the ones that Trump makes up.
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