National Emergency? What National Emergency! on "Your Weekly Constitutional"

 Is it time to stock up on bottled water and toilet paper?  Or is the situation on our southern border something less than a real emergency?

Our guest is Andrew Boyle, who works in the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice.  He and Stewart have an enlightening conversation that starts at the very beginning:  What, precisely, constitutes a “national emergency?”  Who gets to declare one?  And what happens then?

Specifically, can Donald Trump use the powers granted to the Executive during the current national emergency to build his wall?  He’ll face a fair amount of resistance, and Andrew and Stewart consider the various forms it will likely take."

Your Weekly Constitutional is hosted by Constitutional Law Professor Stewart Harris. Stewart teaches Constitutional Law at the Appalachian School of Law (ASL) in Grundy, Virginia. In 2011, Professor Harris created a public radio show, Your Weekly Constitutional, which is produced at WETS-FM, the NPR affiliate in Johnson City, Tennessee, and syndicated nationally.  YWC is underwritten by the Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution at Montpelier, the historic home of the Father of the Constitution, James Madison.