U.S. Supreme Court turns away challenge to Trump's border wall

Reuters ^ | 3 Dec 2018 | Andrew Chung

[mandaladon]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rebuffed a challenge by three conservation groups to the authority of President Donald Trump’s administration to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, a victory for Trump who has made the wall a centerpiece of his hardline immigration policies.

The justices’ declined to hear the groups’ appeal of a ruling by a federal judge in California rejecting their claims that the administration had pursued border wall projects without complying with applicable environmental laws. The groups are the Center for Biological Diversity, the Animal Legal Defense Fund and Defenders of Wildlife.

Their lawsuits said construction operations would harm plants, rare wildlife habitats, threatened coastal birds like the snowy plover and California gnatcatcher, and other species such as fairy shrimp and the Quino checkerspot butterfly.

Trump has clashed with U.S. lawmakers, particularly Democrats, over his plans for an extensive and costly border wall that he has called necessary to combat illegal immigration and drug smuggling.

[MarMema]

I thought it was the gobspotted freckled tree grumbler.

[Dennis M.]

The use of the “and” substitutes for a comma. Don W is incorrect, at least in my opinion and as I was taught. As for Oxford, they are English, what do they know?

[InterceptPoint]

Thanks for the input.

Using AND as a substitute for a comma is the way I was also taught. Now I know I’m not losing my memory and going crazy.

[Don W]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3712546/posts

The article above is a demonstration of the confusion possible withOUT an Oxford comma.

Is it a NUMBER of ten foot long spikes, or is it ten, foot long spikes?

(PS, Don’t look at the photos. Ouch and Yuck!)