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After years of faithless Congresses legally but unconstitutionally ceding power to the presidency, we have arrived where we are today ― a president who spends unappropriated funds, raises taxes, defies courts and changes immigration laws on his own.
— Andrew Napolitano, senior judicial analyst at Fox News, warning Republicans about the dangerous precedent being set by Donald Trump as he uses emergency powers to reallocate military spending to his border wall, spending Congress specifically refused to authorize earlier. Napolitano went on to note that while the GOP may support Donald Trump’s actions now, they “will weep over it when a Democrat is in the White House.” He also said, “When Congress lets presidents write their own laws, then he’s not a president. He’s a prince.”