Last night on The Rachel Maddow Show, Schumer suggested that Biden should use the National Emergency Act to allow him to go around Congress in order to deal with the issue of climate change.
Schumer told Maddow, "He [Biden] can do many, many things under the emergency powers of the President that wouldn't have to go through-that he could do without legislation."
Schumer explained, "Trump used this emergency for a stupid wall which wasn't an emergency, but if there was ever an emergency, climate is one."
Less than two years ago, Schumer railed against Trump's national emergency gambit as being blatantly unconstitutional.
In a joint statement with Nancy Pelosi, Schumer said, "The President's actions clearly violate the Congress's exclusive power of the purse, which our Founders enshrined in the Constitution." He also claimed that President Trump was lawless and that this was an attempt to "Shred the Constitution."
It will be awkward if Biden follows Schumer's advice given that Biden's HHS nominee, Xavier Becerra, literally sued the Trump administration claiming the tactic violated the appropriations clause of the Constitution.
Schumer's game now is to pretend he was against Trump's national emergency because he disagreed with the policy, but the truth is Schumer decried the action-the action he's now urging the new president to take- as a lawless violation of fundamental constitutional principles.
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Chuck Schumer Urges Biden to Grab Power and Shred the Constitution
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