{"id":296384,"date":"2019-01-11T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=296384"},"modified":"2019-01-14T15:37:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T20:37:34","slug":"running-through-national-emergency-scenarios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/01\/11\/running-through-national-emergency-scenarios\/","title":{"rendered":"Running Through National Emergency Scenarios"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Jim in San Francisco. Jim, great to have you. How are you doing, sir?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, really good, Rush. Happy birthday from your only fan out here in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no, no, no. We have many more. I mean, I\u2019m not trying to diminish you, but our audience ratings out there are quite high. There\u2019s a lot of hidden — yeah, you\u2019re not alone out there.<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: I am unbound and I am not diminished in San Francisco. So but, anyway, Rush, what I wanted to point out was going back to the beginning of the show when we were talking about national emergencies and Republicans. I just think that we need to fight like warriors, you know, cynical warriors, like the Democrats do. And I was gonna give two ideas, and I hope anybody from the administration or anybody that has access to the administration passes these two ideas up the flagpole, but here we go. So idea one is, we know as sure as the sun shines that if Trump declares a national emergency, that an injunction will be issued by the Ninth Circuit out in the western states. And why the Ninth Circuit? Because they\u2019re reliably liberal judges, and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, no, no. It can\u2019t first go to the Ninth Circuit. They\u2019re an appellate court. They\u2019ll have to find — we discussed this earlier in the week. I\u2019m gonna have to hold you through the break because it\u2019s coming up here. They\u2019ll find a federal judge somewhere Hawaii or Washington or Oregon that will declare an injunction.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Okay back now to Jim in San Francisco.  So, Jim, what they\u2019d do is they\u2019d find a federal judge and he would issue a stay or an injunction.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right, right. Yes, yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Trump administration would appeal it and they\u2019ll find a judge where the appeal would be to the Ninth Circus. So they would be the second court to get it.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Rush? Rush, let me continue.  The reason why it\u2019s always the Ninth Circuit is because Republicans always sit around with thumbs up their noses waiting for a liberal to file it in the Ninth Circuit.  What I suggest is that what we do is that we know that Trump\u2019s gonna do this, that literally one second after he declares a national emergency, we file for an injunction in the 5th, the 8th, or 11th Districts and let them take it because you can\u2019t have all these different districts fighting the same battle.  Whoever comes first… In this case would be the 5th down in Texas would be hearing the case and when the 9th District starts stamping like Rumpelstiltskin saying, “We want it! We want it!” they\u2019re gonna have to defer to the federal district court in Texas that took it up first.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Okay let me just see if I understand what you\u2019re saying.  The second that Trump — and this is all coordinated.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So Trump declares the emergency.  A Trump ally files a stay of execution, an injunction in what you think is a friendly circuit.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: So the federal judge will still issue a stay, an injunction against Trump\u2019s order that will then be appealed to what you think is a friendly circuit court that will overturn the injunction and the emergency will be on?<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Yes.  You end-run the liberals.  You end-run them by getting ahead of them in a more friendly court.  Okay, let me give you my second idea and that\u2019s this.  A national emergency allows the president to use different pots of money to pay for, in this case, a wall.  What I suggest that the administration do when they declare a national emergency, along with building the wall is to pay for all the federal workers right now. Float them loans, give them their normal paychecks, and let the Democrats argue against why that shouldn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Well, now you got me caught up here in trying to analyze this whether or not it is legal for the president to include in the money that he\u2019s going to allocate for the national emergency — i.e., the building the wall — that he\u2019s then gonna take some additional money and repay furloughed federal employees.  I don\u2019t know that that would qualify as — that federal employees not being paid over a pay period or two would qualify as — a national emergency.<\/p>\n

Still, your ideas the Democrats would try to get that stopped (chuckles), which would put them on the side of making sure federal workers remain payless.  I like it overall.  The thing is, it\u2019s just risky.  You think certain appellate districts would be friendly. But there are liberal judges everywhere on every one of these circuit courts or these appellate courts.  You never know what three judges you\u2019re gonna get to start out with — and then if you lose with that three-judge panel, then you can request en banc, which means the entire bunch of \u2019em on the court.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a risky strategy for the Republicans to try to be the first to declare the state of emergency unconstitutional. (chuckling) But I understand your thinking.  You want to beat the Democrats to the punch and make sure that they don\u2019t get to use their friendly courts, and I like that. If some mechanism could be found…  ‘Cause that is the pattern, and everybody knows that it\u2019s gonna happen.  In fact, there\u2019s… Let me find it. Yeah.  Here\u2019s a story from TheHill.com.  It\u2019s exactly about this.  Get this headline:<\/p>\n

“Democrats Warm to Idea of Emergency Declaration to Reopen Government.<\/a>”  This is from TheHill.com.  I should add that Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina just tweeted that he had met with the president, and it is without doubt — there is no question — that the Democrats hate Donald Trump and are never, ever gonna agree to anything that he wants for whatever reason, no matter what harm comes to them.  That their sole agenda is to destroy Donald Trump, to do everything they can to see to it that he doesn\u2019t get reelected in 2020 — and, even better, maybe get impeached!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

There is literally no way.  Graham is saying there\u2019s no way.  The only thing, therefore — Senator Graham is saying — is for Trump to declare the emergency now, that there is no point in waiting because the Democrats are never gonna talk. They\u2019re never gonna agree. They\u2019re never gonna budge. They\u2019re never gonna do anything.  Now, Trump is on record as saying he would prefer this get solved in a bipartisan way.  He\u2019s also acknowledged that it\u2019s pretty likely that he\u2019ll be declaring the national emergency.<\/p>\n

If I\u2019m Trump — and this is not a comment on anybody. If I\u2019m Trump, I\u2019m gonna be very careful about listening to a bunch of different voices advocating things, because if I\u2019m Donald Trump, I\u2019ve gotta make sure that some of these voices are not trying to sabotage me into doing things that are gonna end up making what I want to accomplish here (i.e., get the wall and get border security) impossible.  So I don\u2019t think… It\u2019s not a legal question.  He clearly has the constitutional authority and legislative authority.<\/p>\n

The congress has passed the National Emergencies Act in 1976.  There\u2019s no way he can\u2019t do this.  But that doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re not gonna try to stop him in the courts.  Declaring a national emergency, Senator Graham says, is the only way that this is gonna get done. So now the Democrats are warming to the idea of this.  Why?  Before we get to that, I mentioned earlier that there are cracks in the Democrat coalition even now, that more and more Democrats are beginning to acknowledge the need for fencing and areas where a wall would be built.<\/p>\n

Senator Jeff Merkley, Democrat, Oregon: “Some fencing has uses.  Some barriers are useful.”  Representative Cheri Bustos, Democrat, Illinois: “If we have a partial wall, if we have fence, if we have technology used to keep our border safe, all of that\u2019s fine.”  Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat, New York: “There are areas along the border where there are currently fences that are put up or barriers that are put up that need to be enhanced.”<\/p>\n

Senator Ben Cardin, Democrat, Maryland:  “Certainly you need barriers, and we support barriers.”  Senator John Sarbanes, Democrat, Maryland: “Certain physical barriers can make sense along the border, and a lot of places you already have that.”  Representative Katherine Clark, Democrat, Massachusetts: “I think there are parts of border that would benefit from repairing fencing and other barricades that already exist there.” So let\u2019s see. One…two..three..four..five… six Democrats now are acknowledging the usefulness and need for a wall.  So it\u2019s not total unity on the Democrat side.<\/p>\n

\"\"And a lot of Democrats that won in November did so in Trump districts. There are people in those districts that voted for Trump who still want Trump to succeed even though they may have voted for a Democrat in the House race. So now the back to the Hill story. \u201cDemocrats Warm to Idea of Emergency Declaration to Reopen Government.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, it says here: \u201cThe supportive Democrats are quick to emphasize they don\u2019t believe the president has the legal authority to declare such an emergency, predicting the maneuver would quickly lead to lawsuits that they themselves would support.\u201d A-ha! So the Hill gives up the game. They want the president to declare an emergency \u2019cause they don\u2019t think he can and they want him shut down in the courts.<\/p>\n

I mentioned this is a rumor floating around yesterday. Democrats want Trump to go the emergency route, knowing it\u2019s gonna be blocked by a judge. Once that happens the legal process begins to go the speed of a turtle. And this thing could take longer than the remainder of Trump\u2019s presidential term in office.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve even heard — you want to hear the next rumor? You\u2019re not gonna like this one. I\u2019ve heard it speculated that Trump really doesn\u2019t care. He just wants to keep his base happy, so he will declare a national emergency, and if the Democrats stop him in court, no big deal, he has fulfilled his promise, he did everything he could. If the Democrats then stand in the way and a bunch of judges, well, he did his best.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s so much poisonous stuff out there that you have to weed through. They\u2019re doing everything they can to try to convince Trump voters that they\u2019re wasting their time supporting him. And in this instance, they\u2019re trying to tell Trump voters that they\u2019re being fooled, that Trump doesn\u2019t really care about this. Look at the Maggie Haberman leak<\/a>. Trump didn\u2019t even want to do the national address.<\/p>\n

And then the next leak, Trump didn\u2019t even want to go to the border. He didn\u2019t think any of it was gonna make a difference, but his staff made him do it, so he did it, but he didn\u2019t want to do it. Now they\u2019re saying, Trump doesn\u2019t even really care. He\u2019ll declare emergency status and then he knows the courts will shut it down and that\u2019ll be that. And he can say he kept his promise. So keep a sharp eye \u2019cause there\u2019s all kinds of stuff lurking around out there, effervescing up, designed to get you to question your support for Trump.<\/p>\n

And now the time is marching on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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