President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency to build a wall on the southern border violates the Constitution, Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., said Sunday.
In an interview on CBS News’ “Face The Nation,” Amash declared that Congress has “to protect our own power.”
“I think the president is violating our constitutional system,” Amash said. “I don't think Congress can grant legislative powers to the president by statute.”
He also said the issue should be decided in Congress, and not the courts.
“Our system is not designed so the courts are going to resolve these disputes all the time between the legislative branch and executive branch,” Amash said.
According to Amash, if there was a true emergency at the southern border, there’d be no doubt about it.
‘If there were an emergency in the sense that the president is describing, there would be a lot more consensus,” he said. “When a house is on fire, nobody is debating whether they should go into save people or whether they should put out the fire. Everyone understands that's an emergency.
“The fact that there's a debate going on here indicates it's not an emergency in the sense the president is describing,” he continued. “And he can't go around Congress.”
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