Posted on 02/18/2019 6:38:41 PM PST by usafa92
The Trump 2020 campaign is highlighting examples of the president keeping his promises, advisory board member Marc Lotter says.
The attorneys general of California, New York, and 14 other states on Monday filed a lawsuit in the Ninth Circuit against the White House's recent national emergency declaration over border security, claiming President Trump has "veered the country toward a constitutional crisis of his own making."
President Trump sarcastically had predicted the lawsuit last week. He's slammed the Ninth Circuit multiple times as "disgraceful" and politically biased.
The litigation, brought before a federal trial court in the Northern District of California, seeks an injunction to prevent Trump from shifting billions of dollars from military construction to the border without explicit congressional approval. The suit also asks a court to declare Trump's actions illegal, arguing that Trump showed a "flagrant disregard of fundamental separation of powers principles engrained in the United States Constitution" by violating the Constitution's Presentment and Appropriations Clauses, which govern federal spending.
The litigation additionally includes allegations that Trump is violating the National Environmental Policy Act, by planning to build a wall that could impact the environment without first completing the necessary environmental impact reports.
The states contend they have standing to sue the administration largely because, they allege, the federal funds could have been spent on their defense. "Maine is aggrieved by the actions of Defendants and has standing to bring this action because of the injury to the State and its residents caused by Defendants’ reduction of federal defense spending in Maine due to diversion of funding to the border wall," one section of the suit reads.
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you keep saying the same incorrect thing and obviously didn’t do the search to show how wrong you are. I guess we’re done.
here’s a kick start
A U.S. senator represents a state as a whole and its interests in Congress. Since 1913, members of the Senate have been elected directly by the general population of a state, but before that, state legislatures appointed senators.
In terms of geography and population, there is a sizable difference between each state. The United States features a bicameral legislature, which seeks to eliminate the tension between equal representation for each state and equal representation for each person, regardless of state. This feature of the U.S. legislative system is known as the Great Compromise. There are two senators per state to give each state an equal say in the affairs of the federal government.
MD Gov is a never-Trumper and right now, they’re trying to make us a “sanctuary state”.
Apparently the illegal hordes here are feeling unsafe, lately.
Even when we do get an [R] gov, we’re still the Freak State.
/and no, I cannot afford to move across the river to WV
Okay...why the hell does Hawaii even care?
They’re pretty safe from illegal invaders...they’re not gonna wanna swim THAT far.
The attorneys general from Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon and Virginia joined California in the lawsuit. 16 states.
It will be interesting to see how Obama’s emergency declaration in 2011 about the southern border will impact on this.””””
It will be even more interesting when the USA citizens find out that Pres Teddy Roosevelt in 1907 declared a 60 foot EASEMENT the the entire length of the USA/Mexican border.
How many deeds of landholders along the border properly reflect that fact?
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