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Greg Sargent asks whether facts matter. No, seriously. Here’s a bit:
But for legal purposes, do the facts on the ground matter at all?
According to Goitein of the Brennan Center, since passage of the National Emergencies Act, the courts have not once considered the question of whether a national emergency can be declared invalid on the grounds that there isn’t any national emergency. Another legal expert told Charlie Savage the same.
In related news, Yastreblyansky thinks Donald Trump may unknowingly be headed for a snag in the Rio Grande.