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GOP leader unsure on legality of Trump’s emergency declaration

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) says he has yet to determine whether President Trump’s emergency declaration to build border barriers is legal.

Asked for his legal opinion after meeting with a Department of Justice lawyer at a Tuesday luncheon of the GOP conference, McConnell said, “I haven’t reached a total conclusion.”

McConnell said while he graduated from law school, he’s not an expert on constitutional questions of separations of power.

View the complete February 26 article by Alexander Bolton on The Hill website here.

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