Posted on 04/08/2019 11:20:22 PM PDT by BeauBo
The first contracts to support the construction of President Donald Trump's much-sought-after border wall are expected to be awarded this week using Pentagon funds, two US defense officials tell CNN... as early as Tuesday. The contracts are to support work... in Yuma, Arizona (11 miles), and the New Mexico part of the El Paso sector (46 miles), which also includes Texas.
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Obviously, they had this well prepared ahead of time.
They’re trying to get it started before the 9th circuit judge can rule on the preliminary injunction on the new law suit filed this week. The court has to allow the government to respond to the complaint, file motions to dismiss and to argue against an injunction.
Why is some of this short 18-foot walls?!
They will put it right next to the Cookies and Punch, the Ice Cream Machine, and the Democrat American Voter Disenfranchisement Offices.
No one should be talking to CNN
There is a video of the President down at the finished new wall yesterday and he covers this:
Basically it is on the recommendations of local border patrol agents in relation to terrain and threat levels.
The power of leftists in the 9th Circuit is diminishing.
Agree. The court could grant an emergency restraining order but I think the USSC would shut that down.
“The power of leftists in the 9th Circuit is diminishing.”
And once the court is full, open a federal investigation as to why Conservative justices on the court aren’t getting social justice cases. Because we all know this is coming.
Fisher in place precast system looks promising.
These segments were funded out of DoD’s Couter-Drug money. No one is suing to stop that. In total, they plan to spend $2.5 billion from there - about twice as much as Congress authorized for the wall this year.
The lawsuits over the emergency declaration are to prevent the President from also spending money from the Military Construction (MILCON) accounts. The administration has said they intend to spend $3.6 billion from there. Along with about 600 million from Treasury’s asset forfeiture accounts, that would be about $8 billion for wall building this year - which would make a serious impact on illegal immigration. That’s why they are pulling out the stops to sabotage it.
The bottom line is that the law is very clear on the President’s specific power to declare an emergency unilaterally, and spend MILCON as he sees fit. No honest, competent judge would rule against it - so they will find some partisan hacks to delay it, and require an appeal to the 9th Circuit. Either the 9th or the Supreme Court will reverse it, after as much delay as the Left can inflict.
DoJ’s position is that the courts do not even have a role in emergency declarations, so the Administration might just drive ahead anyway, and dare the Congressional Democrats to start an impeachment of the President going into the election, to prevent securing our border.
NY and CA, along with other states and orgs, filed a suit in No. Ca. on 4/4/2019. https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/filed_pi.pdf and their argument is that PDJT does not have the statutory authority to use the forfeiture funds and that the DOD transfer to the anti-drug funds is also illegal. Also they are arguing that NM has an argument that DHS has not exempted the NM sections as exempt from NERA. The complaint is not very long, but it is the only one that challenges the funding specifically.
They are just flinging any and every outlandish theory, to see if anything sticks - or more likely, to provide their chosen hack judge a selection of flimsy threads to hang his foregone conclusion of a ruling on.
President Trump pretty well nailed it when he declared the Emergency - they will get an injunction where the appeal has to go to the Ninth Circuit, but ultimately the Supreme Court will uphold his legal authority.
To out of the three cases are before the same Northern California District Judge - whose court is only about a half mile from the Ninth Circuit Court in San Francisco.
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