[ACLU-CU ALERT] Presidents' Day Protest Against National Emergency 3-4 pm Champaign Public Library

[Champaign County ACLU Announcements]

I'll be there. Does anyone need a ride? I live in southeast Urbana.
japalen17 at gmail.com or 217-600-7317
John Palen

On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 2:06 PM Champaign County ACLU Announcements <
announce at aclu-cu.org> wrote:

>
> *Champaign County ACLU is supporting the Presidents' Day Protest Against
> National Emergency *
> *MON Feb. 18   3 - 4 pm. *
> *Champaign Public Library, 200 W Green.*
> *Please spread the word and JOIN US!*
>
> At 3 pm we'll meet up at the Champaign Public Library in the Robeson Rooms
> on the first floor. From there we will march down Green St. to Neil St. to
> the Champaign Municipal Building. If you have time constraints or mobility
> concerns, you can park or drive along the route and honk when you see us
> coming. Share your support however you can. Bring signs, your friends, warm
> clothes and your sense of solidarity. We hope to see you there!
>
> Facebook Event is here:
> https://www.facebook.com/events/349020155699551/?acontext=%7B%22source%22%3A4%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D&source=4&action_history=null&ref=4
>
> The ACLU is filing suit and Cecillia Wang
> <https://www.aclu.org/bio/cecillia-wang>, ACLU Deputy Legal Director said:
>
> "Trump’s declaration damages the rule of law and violates the
> constitutional checks and balances that protect us, the people, from a
> president’s abuse of power. The Constitution provides that Congress has the
> power to spend federal funds — our taxpayer dollars. And Congress has
> enacted a law <https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/2808> that
> gives the president *limited* power to spend federal funds without a
> congressional appropriation when he declares a national emergency. That law
> lets the president spend taxpayer money on military construction when
> “necessary to support” the emergency use of armed forces.
>
> What Trump is doing is patently illegal, because there is no emergency. He
> even admitted it himself during his press conference today: “I didn’t need
> to do this, but I’d rather do it much faster.”
>
> And that’s the truth.
>
> Three weeks ago, Trump announced that if Congress didn’t give him what he
> wanted, he would declare a national emergency. This week, Congress reached
> a bipartisan deal to avert another government shutdown and appropriated
> $1.375 billion for the border wall. President Trump disagrees with
> Congress’s decision and wants to spend more. That is not an emergency. It’s
> an unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’s spending power by the
> president."
>
> Read the entire statement here:
> https://www.aclu.org/blog/executive-branch/there-no-national-emergency-border-and-trumps-declaration-illegal
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