Posted on 07/12/2019 10:25:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to lift a freeze on Pentagon money it wants to use to build sections of a border wall with Mexico.
Two lower courts have ruled against the administration in a lawsuit over the funding. Last week, a divided three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco kept in place a lower court ruling preventing the government from tapping Defense Department counterdrug money to build high-priority sections of wall in Arizona, California and New Mexico.
At stake in the case is billions of dollars that would allow Trump to make progress on a major 2016 campaign promise heading into his race for a second term. Trump ended a 35-day government shutdown in February after Congress gave him approximately $1.4 billion in border wall funding, far less than the $5.7 billion he was seeking. Trump then declared a national emergency to take cash from other government accounts to use to construct sections of wall.
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Good luck with John Roberts.
How the hell did they assume so much power, anyway?
Because the citizenry doesn’t have the nerve to send messages to black-robed tyrants.
Where in the Constitution does it say that the Supreme Court has a veto over the public purse?
It was there for the taking.
The 17th Amendment neutered the Senate and rendered Congress largely incapable of checking, via its Article III power, the courts.
“The 17th Amendment neutered the Senate“
An astute observation. The 17th should be repealed.
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I’ll toss in that the House is today’s farm team for the Senate. They bring their House habits and perspectives. Why not?
OTOH, pre-17A, state legislators were not only the senate’s farm team, each was a potential rival. Totally different relationship between the employers and employed. As opposed to today, pre-17A senators couldn’t blow smoke and fake their record to their employers.
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