Professor of Law Provides Commentary on National Emergency Declaration
Friday, February 22, 2019,
By Sean Dorcellus
, Professor of Law Emeritus, was quoted about President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration in several prominent media outlets, including , , , , , , and .
In the New York Times article, Banks said, “This is a real institutional threat to the separation of powers to use emergency powers to enable the president to bypass Congress to build a wall on his own initiative that our elected representatives have chosen not to fund.”
Banks also contributed to a Newsday opinion piece “” In this story, he makes a case against President Trump’s decision to invoke a national emergency.