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NY Times: Why Trump’s Emergency Mess Means Danger for the Courts - The president’s move has already been challenged in court. Win or lose, he is almost certainly forcing an alarming judicial precedent. By Robert Chesney - Mr. Chesney is a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

The Texans and others who face the loss of land because of eminent domain actions funded via Mr. Trump’s emergency declaration have standing to sue and good cause to do so. Not because the government may offer them too little money to constitute just compensation, though past practice suggests this will be an issue, too. Rather, they object to the process that the president has used to gain the funding after Congress largely denied it to him.