Look past the disjointed rambling in President Trump's Rose Garden statement and press conference Friday.
Look past the lies, such as when he insisted again that undocumented immigrants, who are less likely to commit crimes than native-born Americans, threaten the nation's safety.
And when he said most drugs come through unwalled areas, not ports of entry, contradicting his own Drug Enforcement Administration.
And when he said more people are trying to immigrate illegally than ever before, when border apprehensions have fallen by 80 percent since 2000.
What matters most right now is that Trump just declared a national emergency to override a determination that Congress just made _ namely, not to spend billions of public dollars on construction of a border wall.
He now seeks to unilaterally move billions allocated for other purposes to respond to a crisis that by any objective measure is not a crisis.
Congress, especially Republicans who spent years railing against Barack Obama for executive overreaches that look positively shy in comparison, must fight this hard. And the courts _ including the five judges who constitute the Supreme Court's conservative majority _ must reject this patent perversion of the balance of power.
