Posted on 07/26/2019 7:36:07 PM PDT by caww
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court cleared the way Friday for the Trump administration to tap billions of dollars in Pentagon funds to build sections of a border wall with Mexico.
The court’s five conservative justices gave the administration the greenlight to begin work on four contracts it has awarded using Defense Department money. Funding for the projects had been frozen by lower courts while a lawsuit over the money proceeded. The court’s four liberal justices wouldn’t have allowed construction to start.
The justices’ decision to lift the freeze on the money allows President Donald Trump to make progress on a major 2016 campaign promise heading into his race for a second term. Trump tweeted after the announcement: “Wow! Big VICTORY on the Wall. The United States Supreme Court overturns lower court injunction, allows Southern Border Wall to proceed. Big WIN for Border Security and the Rule of Law!”
The Supreme Court’s action reverses the decision of a trial court, which initially froze the funds in May, and an appeals court, which kept that freeze in place earlier this month. The freeze had prevented the government from tapping approximately $2.5 billion in Defense Department money to replace existing sections of barrier in Arizona, California and New Mexico with more robust fencing.
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Woo hoo!
And Justice Roberts says there are no liberal and conservative justices in our courts...
The lawsuit at the Supreme Court was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of the Sierra Club and Southern Border Communities Coalition. The justices who lifted the freeze on the money did not give a lengthy explanation for their decision. But they said among the reasons they were doing so was that the government had made a “sufficient showing at this stage” that those bringing the lawsuit don’t have a right to challenge the decision to use the money.
“Federal distict judge in Guam issues late-Friday injunction reversing the Supreme Court’s decision”
Traitor Roberts tends to wish he were an 0bama Judge.
Sounds like fun... Is there a link?
I’m A-B testing a Babylon Bee headline... ;-)
And some Freepers say Roberts is a liberal, Heller, Obergofell, and the Wall notwithstanding.
Did the 9th Circuit overrule the SCOTUS yet on the matter?
More #WINNING!
If SCOTUS isn’t the end of the road, where the hell is it?
Very important win.
Only the law of the land when killing babies is concerned.
4 socialist sjw snowflake justices favor an unconstitutional ruling.
Thats where we are in 2019.
“President Trump needs to fast track appeal of that San Francisco fag’s asylum decision.”
They are not fags. They are “persons of gayness.”
John Roberts would like us to think that there aren’t liberal or conservative judges. He would like us to think that judges are carefully weighing constitutional rights and the rule of law, the text of laws, the boundaries of presidential powers, etc. when issuing opinions. But we all know that too often, the votes can be predicted along liberal/conservative lines.
Maybe 5% of the total length of the southern border, but some of the total distance has formidable natural barriers. A good start. I’m glad the American John Roberts showed up this time.
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