National Emergency? What National Emergency! on "Your Weekly Constitutional"
Is it time to stock up on bottled water and toilet paper?\xa0 Or is the situation on our southern border something less than a real emergency?\n\nOur guest is Andrew Boyle, who works in the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice.\xa0 He and Stewart have an enlightening conversation that starts at the very beginning:\xa0 What, precisely, constitutes a \u201cnational emergency?\u201d\xa0 Who gets to declare one?\xa0 And what happens then?\n\nSpecifically, can Donald Trump use the powers granted to the Executive during the current national emergency to build his wall?\xa0 He\u2019ll face a fair amount of resistance, and Andrew and Stewart consider the various forms it will likely take."\n\nYour 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,\xa0Your Weekly Constitutional, which is produced at WETS-FM, the NPR affiliate in Johnson City, Tennessee, and syndicated nationally.\xa0 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.