The use and abuse of Presidential "Emergency Powers" II - Our faithful service to the Constitution

When the Congress has specifically voted on and approved a bill to address the question of what kind of border security regime it would allow and support – and passed that bill and only that bill, rather than any number of possible bills – and the President has signed it; and when the Congress has had the time and capacity to consider the issues at hand but 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡; and when the President nonetheless subsequently declares an Emergency and by that means to seek to take actions 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑧𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑏𝑦 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠; then such must be viewed as an attempt to subvert the intent of the laws granting the President Emergency Powers, and as an attempt to appropriate to the Presidency powers contrary to the intent of the Constitution and the inherent checks and balances of power that were established between the three branches of government.

Our faithful service to the Constitution demands that We as a People, and the two other branches of Government, do what is needed to correct for such attempts to abuse the powers of government, and so to act through the freedoms granted to the people and through the vehicles of government to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” when the President is unwilling or unable to do so.