Posted on 06/29/2019 9:57:20 AM PDT by Kaslin
U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam on Friday night delivered a massive blow to President Donald Trump's plan to reallocate funds from the Defense Department to construct the highly-anticipated wall along America's southern border. Judge Gilliam, an Obama appointee, turned his previous temporary injunction into a permanent injunction, which barred the Trump administration from building the wall in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
President Trump declared a national emergency this year and redirected $6 billion from the Defense Department's various projects to build the border wall. Friday's ruling specifically blocks the administration from using $2.5 billion in military funds for the wall.
“Congress considered all of defendants’ proffered needs for border barrier construction, weighed the public interest in such construction against defendants’ request for taxpayer money, and struck what it considered to be the proper balance — in the public’s interest — by making available only $1.375 billion in funding, which was for certain border barrier construction not at issue here,” the judge said in his ruling.
The lawsuit was brought about by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Sierra Club. According to the groups, President Trump didn't have the power to reallocate funds under a national emergency declaration. The Trump administration, however, said the need for military spending was "unforeseen," which makes the funding legal under an emergency declaration, The Hill reported.
"Because no new factual or legal arguments persuade the court that its analysis in the preliminary injunction order was wrong, [the groups’] likelihood of success on the merits has ripened into actual success," Gilliam said in his ruling.
Both plaintiffs were happy with the decision.
“Congress was clear in denying funds for Trump’s xenophobic obsession with a wasteful, harmful wall," ACLU attorney Dror Ladin said in a statement. "This decision upholds the basic principle that the president has no power to spend taxpayer money without Congress’ approval."
“We've seen the damage that the ever-expanding border wall has inflicted on communities and the environment for decades," Gloria Smith, the managing attorney for the Sierra Club, said in a statement. "Walls divide neighborhoods, worsen dangerous flooding, destroy lands and wildlife, and waste resources that should instead be used on the infrastructure these communities truly need.”
U.N. sycophant.
So Trump will go hat in hand to another court thereby ceding executive authority to the Judiciary.
Build that wall anyway.Ignore that judge.
Never seems that these things happen on a Wednesday afternoon, always on a Friday night or right before a holiday weekend after the news cycle for the week is up and the tubes stop paying attention
Unconstitutional court decisions must be ignored and nullified.
They want chaos? We can do chaos.
another death to America, marxist muslim obamanite making rules for the nation.
he needs GITMO, like Obama.
“Whom the Gods would destroy, they first make insane.”
The USA has gone mad. I pray that Trump will finally exercise his constitutional power and disregard this rogue judge. Don’t appeal the ruling, as if some other member of the judicial branch is the only recourse. Ignore it!
Our government was not set up with the Judicial branch superior to the other two branches. Control over national security and the border is specifically delegated to the Executive branch. This Federal judge has no more authority over this issue than my small town’s mayor or dogcatcher does.
Declare the judge to be in violation of the US Constitution and begin empeachment proceedures.
Money should of already been in the builders bank....Should hire the builder that was funded by the people. They are GOOD.
Question for the attorneys here: Which clause of the Constitution allows district or circuit courts (inferior and regional) to block lawful exercise of executive authority?
Just build the wall, tell the judges to go to hell.
“Judge Haywood S. Gilliam Jr., an Obama appointee to a district court in California, had previously halted several sections of border wall projects. His new ruling Friday extends that blockade to all $2.5 billion in money Mr. Trump had sought to use from a Pentagon drug interdiction account.”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jun/28/haywood-s-gilliam-blocks-more-funding-trumps-borde/
“... mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” Biden said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”
Supreme Court is now out of session, wait for September.
Co Inky Dink, you decide.
What’s the judges name? I’d like to know what to call the most powerful man in the US.
So this Judge blocked 2.5 billion of the 6 billion the president reallocated from the military. This seems to mean there is still 3.5 billion available for additional border wall.
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