House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and her fellow House Democrats just introduced a resolution to terminate President Trump’s national emergency. In coming days, the resolution will likely pass the House, setting in motion a process
that will force a Senate vote on it. Either Senate Republicans will
side with Trump, or they’ll pass the measure, after which Trump will
veto it.
This represents a small challenge to
Trump’s corruption and lies — to his corruption of our institutions and
political system with autocratic and authoritarian conduct, and to the
deep rot of bad faith at the core of his willingness to declare a
national emergency to build his wall based on false pretenses and invented metrics.
The
move probably won’t succeed in terminating the emergency. But it points
to something we need to see a lot more of: discussion of concrete
proposals and actions designed to fortify our institutions and democracy
against Trump’s ongoing degradations of them, and to restore confidence
in them once Trump is gone.
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