Thursday’s vote against the President’s extraordinary border-wall initiative was a leading indicator that the power calculus seems to be swinging back to Capitol Hill
The principal reason the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate rebuffed President Donald Trump on his border-wall emergency order Thursday afternoon was principle itself.
Throughout the broad sweep of American history, Congress and the White House have struggled for predominance – a tension prescribed by the 18th-century Constitution that helps explain many of the country’s defining episodes from its fragile post-colonial life to its current status as a global superpower.
But even without the dramatic Democratic takeover of the House, it is likely that a handful of Republicans would have rebelled against the extension of executive power that the President’s emergency order represented. “The legislative branch must be eternally vigilant over the powers and authorities vested in it by the Constitution – eternally vigilant. This is vitally important to the security of our constitutional system of checks and balances and separation of powers.”
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