didn’t the SC already rule on this? I am so sick of the whack-a—mole game these rat Judges are playing.
“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.