Posted on 10/11/2019 2:48:43 PM PDT by rintintin
A federal judge ruled Friday that President Donald Trump violated federal law when he used his declaration of a national emergency to get millions for building a wall on the southern border, NBC News reports.
The ruling is a victory for El Paso County, Texas, and the Border Network for Human Rights, which sued to stop border construction in their community. They argued that Trump had no legal authority to spend more than what Congress appropriated for the wall project.
In January the president asked for $5.7 billion to build "a steel barrier for the Southwest border," but Congress approved only $1.375 billion. In February, Trump declared a national emergency and ordered that money for Pentagon construction projects would be used instead for the wall.
Federal District Court Judge David Briones said the president's order violated a provision of the budget law approved by Congress which said "none of the funds made available in this or any other appropriation may be used to increase" the funding for the wall project.
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Let’s see. . where are we? The Dems were saying it wasn’t an emergency, then it was an emergency. . now it’s not an emergency again?
No. This will be appealed. Meanwhile, building continues apace.
As Zen Master, my court guy noted, there is no injunction at this time, so construction continues.
This was Menopausal Ann trying to dis Trump and #EpicFail.
No. Different case from environmental rights group.
This will be appealed to the friendly 5th Circuit.
Nope and nope
Earlier case was based on environmental concerns. That one was tossed, the injunction lifted, building started.
This one uses different grounds, but no injunction, building continues. Will be appealed to the (mostly friendly) 5th-—but building continues.
Only way to care is bring a lawsuit. Republicans never seem to do that when democrats are in office.
They should have never let the ineligible muslim Marxist take office.
But they had their own ineligibles they wanted to run.
I realize it’s a different case, but I believe the issues are the same.
They are claiming he has no right to declare a state of emergency, and thus no right to redirect Pentagon funds.
Congress can dictate that funds can’t be transferred for other purposes under normal conditions, but once a state of emergency is declared, I think they lose the ability to block.
Seems to me any competent judge would have tossed this new challenge.
Thank you for the mention. I thought it had been challenged on the redirection of funds.
Darn we should tear it down. De judge is a maroon.
Friday’s the day for dumping unpleasant news while people are going away for the weekend, of course.
I remember ol’ Judge Nap wringing his hands on Twitter over the droning of Anwar al-Alawki overseas because he was also a US citizen.
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