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Supreme Court dumps border wall funding case
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com ^ | by Nicholas Rowan, Staff Writer | | July 02, 2021 10:25 AM

Posted on 07/02/2021 8:29:41 AM PDT by Red Badger

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected an appeal from former President Donald Trump to rule against funding used for the wall along the southern border.

In an unsigned order, the court sent the case back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit with instructions to vacate its judgments. It also instructed a district court in the case to "consider what further proceedings are necessary and appropriate in light of the changed circumstances in this case," namely that Trump is no longer president.

SUPREME COURT SUSPENDS TRUMP BORDER WALL CASE

The case, Trump v. Sierra Club, frequently made its way back to the Supreme Court after Trump announced in 2019 that he planned to declare a national emergency and reallocate funds given to him through the National Emergencies Act for the wall. Trump's maneuver, which came amid the 2018-2019 government shutdown, raised multiple legal challenges.

Every court involved in the case ruled against the then-president, finding that Trump had violated the separation of powers. In addition, the Ninth Circuit upheld a lower court injunction that blocked border wall construction during litigation. In 2019, the Supreme Court put a stay on that injunction on the basis that challengers may not have had standing to sue the administration.

In 2020, the case came back to the Supreme Court, this time with the Sierra Club asking the court to lift its stay. The court declined to do so.

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Later that year, the Trump administration brought the case to the court again, claiming that the Sierra Club did not have the standing to sue in the first place. The court scheduled arguments for early 2021, but the incoming Biden administration asked that it postpone arguments.

At the time, the new administration changed course on many of Trump's immigration policies, making the case moot.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: 9thcircuit; california; johnroberts; lawfare; ninthcircuit; nostanding; openborders; scotus; sierraclub

1 posted on 07/02/2021 8:29:41 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
If the only part of the border that didn't have a wall on it was a national park, then the national park would soon be destroyed by the flow of illegal aliens through it.

There was a small group of Sierra Clubbers who spoke up against illegal immigration as they saw the damage that was being done as the illegals travelled through sensitive desert terrain.

However they were shouted down by the leftists in the Sierra Club who now seem more concerned about being woke than caring about the environment.

2 posted on 07/02/2021 8:41:01 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: Red Badger

>>”consider what further proceedings are necessary and appropriate in light of the changed circumstances in this case,” namely that Trump is no longer president.

Activists, not judges.


3 posted on 07/02/2021 8:48:10 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

The Sierra Club is quietly the most dangerous Communist front Organization in the world. They have their hands in everything Communist, just like George Soros. Their environmental activism is just a convenient front for some very serious Communist activity including direct collaboration and money laundering with China.


4 posted on 07/02/2021 8:49:44 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Red Badger

Our Supreme Court is working against the us.


5 posted on 07/02/2021 8:53:01 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: Red Badger

Burn in Hell, John Roberts.


6 posted on 07/02/2021 9:03:07 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Tse-tung)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear; Red Badger; SunkenCiv; Liz

An accurate summation: Those in the Sierra Club who WANT TO support and isolate (to “defend”) the national forest - which is really a scrub brush desert wasteland, but who’s complaining about that - were shouted down by those social-commeunt-democrats in the Sierra Club who are demanding the open-border anti-America slaves in the left continue to fight Trump’s pro-America agenda.


7 posted on 07/02/2021 9:23:26 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Red Badger
I can understand this ruling, but don't understand why the wall is not continuing. Congress passed a law for a wall years ago and it was signed into law. As we know, they didn't pass funding until Trump came along. It is also law of the land.

How can an E.O. counters signed Congressional laws on the books? Someone please tell me how that works.

8 posted on 07/02/2021 9:29:42 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Soooo, how are all those awesome “originalists” Trump appointed been working out for ya?


9 posted on 07/02/2021 9:38:46 AM PDT by BillyBoy ("States rights" is NOT a suicide pact.)
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To: Openurmind

Club Sierra; WWF, NRDC, etc, etc.


10 posted on 07/02/2021 9:42:49 AM PDT by sauropod (The smartphone is the retina of the mind's eye.)
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To: sauropod

Yep... But the Sierra Club is extremely dangerous because they truly do believe in eradication of the human species.


11 posted on 07/02/2021 9:50:14 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Openurmind

Openurmind wrote:

“Yep... But the Sierra Club is extremely dangerous because they truly do believe in eradication of the human species.”

Have they ever stopped to consider that if that happened, they themselves wouldn’t exist?


12 posted on 07/02/2021 9:53:48 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000))
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To: WildHighlander57

No... They do not care. They do indeed think that the species needs to go including themselves... but last. I have talked to hundreds over the years and they are absolutely insane to this degree.


13 posted on 07/02/2021 10:50:27 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
In an unsigned order, the court sent the case back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit with instructions to vacate its judgments.
Thanks Red Badger.

14 posted on 07/02/2021 1:02:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Robert A Cook PE
Thanks RACPE.

15 posted on 07/02/2021 1:42:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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