- Research Question(s):
- The research question is do trump do emergency will make the wall built successfully? National emergency policy. Does trump really have this power?the citizens of USA are really care about this question.
- Conceptual Definitions/Descriptions: If Trump makes a unilateral land grab, landowners will tie him up in court for years. In fact, that is the most likely outcome of the wall saga. Without congressional authorization, Trump can't move quickly to build his wall. Instead, he'll get stuck in court until 2020, and then who knows what will.
- Methods and Instruments:In order to build a wall, the government must use its eminent domain power to seize more than 1,000 miles of property along the border. That power to take private property for public use is bedrock to a functioning government: It allows us to build bridges and highways, establish public parks and run utility lines.
- Key Findings/Results: the counterargument that if we assume Trump has Congressional authorization to fund part of the wall (for example by reprogramming drug interdiction funds), and seizing land is necessary for building that wall, then by extension he's authorized to seize the land. But, it's far from clear whether that causal link holds water, and the question would likely be litigated.
- Argument: The first is that Trump's border wall is making strange bedfellows of human rights-loving liberals and property rights-loving conservatives.
- And the second: If Trump makes a unilateral land grab, landowners will tie him up in court for years.
