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Breaking: Donald Trump will declare a state or emergency for the Southern border. This poses an extreme risk to the Republic. more...
Under such a declaration, he can set aside the rule of law, which goes to the heart of why Russia attacked the U.S. democracy. more.... 
What can he do? Things like suspend the internet or freeze bank accounts, according to @TheAtlantic. more...
It's a dangerous precedent for the U.S. but it also has precedence. Billionaire dictators Trump admired like Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan have played the same game. Erdogan declared a state of emergency in 2016. It allowed him to purge 150K civil servants and charge 77k opponents.
By the time that two-year state of emergency ran out, Erdogan had transformed the Turkish presidency in something of a dictatorship. He has sweeping powers and a new terrorism law that allows him to stifle dissent but that's not all... more.... reuters.com/article/us-tur…
In January, he got new emergency powers. This time because of the financial crisis in Turkey.
We cannot afford to go down this road with a president who is the subject of a counterintelligence investigation, suspected of being a foreign agent, who takes instructions from the leader of a sworn enemy state. Legal challenges will follow but we can't ignore what he's doing.
This is an attack on democracy, launched from the executive, the White House, likely under orders from foreign forces. It attacks the notion of three separate but equal branches of government which the founding fathers created as a check and balance against foreign oppression.
