Posted on 01/09/2020 9:16:27 AM PST by MaxistheBest
A federal appeals court has ruled the Trump administration can divert $3.6 billion in military funds to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Multiple reports indicate the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to temporarily stay a lower court ruling out of Texas.
Reuters reports the stay is pending an appeal by the Trump administration of the ruling by a federal judge that prevented the transfer of funds.
El Paso County, Texas, and the Border Network for Human Rights have been challenging the funds transfer.
The panel noted that the U.S. Supreme Court had issued a stay in a similar case from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border was the signature promise of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. Following last year’s government shutdown, Trump declared immigration a national emergency and used that as justification for siphoning funds to the wall. Critics have said the move circumvented the “power of the purse” that belongs to Congress.
Good news Thursday!
Win!!
Looks like the illegals down in El Paso should have taken their case to a Feral court in Maryland. It would have been a guaranteed win for them.
More winning for us and more losing for the Dems.
[[Appeals court allows $3.6 billion in military funds for border wall]]
Democrats are furious that the money isn’t going to iran
Once it gets to higher courts, Trump usually wins. It’s all just stall tactics in the end.
WOOT WOOT!
That’s so good the hear! Most want it, including many that say to pollsters that they do not.
Now to stay strong on deporting the trespassers, too.
Great post. Thanks America’s robed mullahs.
didn’t the SC already rule on this? I am so sick of the whack-a—mole game these rat Judges are playing.
Maryland gives free healthcare to illegals. I’ve observed the illegals from all the surrounding states go there for free healthcare.
The 3 Judges .... 1 Reagan Appointee ... 1 Trump Appointee .. and the 1 Judge in the minority was an Obama Mullah
President Trump’s judges are making an immediate difference!
If I have an expensive healthcare need in the future, what's to stop me from going to Maryland, undocumented, and getting free healthcare? I'm from NJ and have a hispanic-ish last name. If its summertime, I can even look the part with a decent tan (I live in a shore community).
Winning
https://warroomthewall.com/74-miles-of-border-wall-completed-158-more-under-construction/
74 Miles of Border Wall Completed, 158 More Under Construction ... 450 miles by the end of 2020
President Trump is plugging away and it’s driving the moonbats crazy!
Guaranteed we'll have a drone fly by video for the campaign, much to the chagrin of the Lefties.
To the tune of a old time TV show:
Head ‘em up....move ‘em out!
Keep the bogies movin’, chapped ass...
Good to know some black-robed tyrant will “allow” the President of the United States to defend the country.
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
“didn’t the SC already rule on this?”
They ruled on the $2.5 billion out of Military Counter-Narcotics funds that the President designated for Wall building.
This is for the $3.6 billion from Military Construction (MILCON) funds. Different pot of money, authorized by a separate law. The MILCON money is only authorized if the President declares an emergency under the National Emergencies Act. Counter-Narcotics funds are explicitly authorized for building border fences, roads and lighting in the legislation that established that program in the first place.
Both cases raise the same issue though - any one of the more than 600 Federal District Judges might try to “Veto” the President of the United States - even during a declared emergency.
Both of these cases will now still proceed at their own pace, but the President will not be restrained from acting until any and every Federal Judge feels good and ready to issue a final ruling.
On the legal merits, both types of funds are on a rock solid basis.
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