Posted on 07/03/2019 7:05:51 PM PDT by Innovative
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld an injunction barring the Trump administration from repurposing approximately $2.5 billion in Pentagon money to the Department of Homeland Security to build a border wall with Mexico, prompting the White House to promise an immediate appeal.
A divided three-judge panel on the appellate court agreed with a lower court ruling that prevented the government from tapping Defense Department counterdrug money to build high-priority sections of wall in Arizona and New Mexico.
In February, Trump ended a 35-day government shutdown after Congress gave him far less than he wanted. He then declared a national emergency that the White House said would free billions of dollars from the Pentagon.
In its ruling, the 9th Circuit panel noted that Section 8005 of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2019 "authorizes the Secretary of Defense to transfer funds for military purposes if the Secretary determines that the transfer is 'for higher priority items, based on unforeseen military requirements' and 'the item for which funds are requested has [not] been denied by the Congress.'"
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This is an emergency,
Forget the law. Put these judges on a one way boat trip.
Money for national defense can’t be used for national defense.
Got it.
Trump needs to call the Ninth out on this, build the damn wall, and to hell with those black-robed tyrants.
EFF these black robbed POS. BUILD THE DAMN WALL!
Just as predicted.
9th Circus needs to be disbanded ASAP and replaced with an honest court
Insanity. Incredible.
Will the SC even take the case?
We don’t need SCOUTS or anyone else to allow the government what the Constitution MANDATES they do: PREVENT INVASION!!! (U.S. Constitution, Art IV, Sec 4). (Illegal immigration and immigration of our enemies is invasion.)
Unconstitutional court decisions should be ignored and nullified and Trump should show his constitutional right to move forward and MOVE FORWARD with the wall regardless of unconstitutional judicial decisions!
The Constitution trumps the courts and the Constitution, NOT the courts, is the Supreme Law of the Land (Art. VI, Cl. 2).
Our court system is out of control.
America’s robed mullahs instrumental in the destruction of the republic.
Deep State is ready to go to the mat. Trump’s border actions are having an effect. SCOTUS will rule against Trump, COUNT ON IT. Chief Traitor Roberts will side with the Ruth Android Ginsburg and crew.
New Mexico is in the 10th Circuit. That’s out of the jurisdiction of the 9th circus.
Doesn’t the law read: “as the Commander in Chief deems necessary..” Or language to that effect. Pretty clear cut to me.
The Commander in Chief has declared a national emergency.
A court of appeals overrides his authority.
To let this stand would set a precedent denying a president to execute his sworn duty.
To allow this to stand would mean the courts would decide what is a national emergency and what is not.
Ignore them and build the Wall anyway.
Let’s see how they try to enforce it.
The president has the power to respond to emergencies under the Emergency Decl act of 1974. The congress has the right to over rule the declaration. They tried and failed.
There is no role for the judiciary in emergency declarations. You can’t provide for the national defense of 200 federal judges can individually or in small panels overrule the president who its commander-in-chief.
The president should stop responding to the court and make a statement, but starting with the immigration restrictions from terrorist counties he had deferred to the courts on matters of national security.
What will he do when the USSC votes 5-4 to not fund the wall?
some judge will ask, if it was an emergency during your campaign and in Jan 2017, why did you let it go so long?
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