House asks court to block Trump's border wall before it starts next month

CNN ^ | Apr. 23, 2019 | Priscilla Alvarez

[Innovative]

The House of Representatives filed a motion Tuesday asking a federal court to block the construction of President Donald Trump's signature border wall through funds identified in his emergency declaration before it starts next month.

"Absent this Court's timely intervention, defendants are poised to begin construction on the border wall next month, using funds that Congress declined to appropriate for that purpose," the filing reads. "This Court should therefore issue a preliminary injunction to prevent that irreparable injury to the House."

The Democrat-led House sued earlier this month, arguing that Trump's decision to transfer funds from appropriated accounts to a southern border wall violates the Appropriations Clause of the Constitution. The clause -- found in Article I, Section 8 -- gives Congress power over the designation of federal spending.

[morphing libertarian]

you had your shot at checks and balances and you lost

[veracious]

Courts are not a high authority in dispute between two branches of government. How could branch three be above the other two branches?

[EQAndyBuzz]

Money has already been appropriated by Congress for national defense. It was just moved to another cost center.

[DoughtyOne]

That’s my take as well...

Thank you.

[ConservativeMind]

Excellent summary! Thank you!

[Raycpa]

Thanks for the expert analysis.

[ridesthemiles]

What happened to the funds Congress voted for the WALL 13 years go???

[NFHale]

And we will ignore them and build it anyway.

Let’s see them enforce it.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

The crazy 9th Circuit covers California and Arizona, with other western states thrown in for shits and grins.

[Jumper]

Then there is the matter of Trump declaring a National Emergency.... All it then needs is a Martial Law order and he’s in charge for a minimum of 60-days.

[Eleutheria5]

We need the money to send over on huge pallets to Iran, once we get rid of Trump and Pence.

This is end game for them. They are practically begging for defeat, with an agenda that doesn’t play at all except in Frisco, LA, Chicago and NYC. The House? Just take it back? Will they still have any Representatives there, come January 20 of next year?

[SkyPilot]

At our own border, on the US side, two American military soldiers were held at gunpoint and disarmed by Mexican authorities.

Mexican Soldiers Stop and Disarm U.S. Troops on U.S. Side of Border

And what does Trump's FBI do? They arrest a US citizen on trumped up weapons charges because he and fellow patriots were detaining Illegal Invaders and calling in border agents.

Man arrested by FBI as dispute over volunteer border patrollers continues

What else is our wonderful FBI doing? Well, they acted with the speed of light to arrest, charge, and threaten to incarcerate (for 40 years!) a Hollywood actress who greased palms to get her daughter into USC.

Lori Loughlin could now face up to 40 years in jail after new charges

Wow! Thanks Dept of "Justice"! You are SO BRAVE getting that animal off the street!

I am not condoning bribery, but THIS is what the FBI and Dept of Injustice is concerned about?

How about arresting, charging, and incarcerating these traitors and criminals?

We are not "winning." Not even close. We are losing.

[Eleutheria5]

I meant come January 20 of 2021

[Eleutheria5]

Anyone who sends their kids to USC deserves what they get. “Education”? Hah.

[MayflowerMadam]

Great post. Putting things in perspective.

[Chickensoup]

You are perceptive.

so true.

The FBI are not even at the beginning of being stopped.

This is a rogue agency in our government with, I suspect, the CIA and NSA.

Very dangerous to the country as a whole.

[i_robot73]

>Oh yes, I did forget the temporary tax cut.

“Temporary”? Aren’t ALL tax-cuts, unlike HIKES, ‘temporary’??

Weren’t the nut-less wonders selling the tax-cuts as ‘revenue neutral’?? ‘Cuz it sure wasn’t ‘across the board\for every income tax-paying Citizen’

[EdnaMode]

All illegals to Democrat neighborhoods now please.

[bert]

Drivel......

The House passed all sorts of stuff passed up to the Senate where it was not taken up because it had no chance of receiving 60 votes. The most glaring example is Obamacare that was passed up I believe 51 or 57 times.

Your anti Republican charges are fashionable but not really true.

The fact is, the Republican House had no more power than the current Democrat House in the face of a Senate with a Republican majority but lacking 60 votes.

Politics is still the art of the possible

[Engedi]

Couldn’t McConnell have reduced it to simple majority of 51? I think so, but he refused.