re: Can Trump build the wall in the sections of the country

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More than likely this is how he'll lose in the courts. It will be difficult for him to make the legal claim that he had to declare an emergency to build a wall moments after he signed a bill into law that prohibits him from building a wall

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Article 1 grants appropriations powers to Congress. Congress exercised its authority in regard to the situation at the border and made an appropriation which the President apparently will sign into law, if he hasn't already.

Whatever emergency powers the president has shouldn't extend to directly overruling an appropriations judgment by Congress. Emergency powers are for acting quickly when needed, not for overruling an Article 1 appropriations decision. Emergency power does not elevate the President to supremacy over the will of Congress.