Federal judge blocks Trump from using Defense funds for parts of border wall
Washington (CNN)A federal judge on Friday night blocked President Donald Trump from tapping into Defense Department funds to build parts of his US-Mexico border wall.
In a 56-page ruling, Judge Haywood Gilliam of the Northern District of California blocked the administration from moving forward with specific projects in Texas and Arizona, saying Trump couldn't disburse the funds without congressional approval. The lawsuit that prompted the ruling was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of the plaintiffs, the Sierra Club and Southern Border Communities Coalition.
Although Friday's ruling does not prevent the Trump administration from using funds from other sources to build the projects, it's a setback for the President on a signature agenda item that has consistently been thwarted by Democrats in Congress. Construction on the projects affected by the ruling could have begun as early as Saturday, according to the ruling.
...
19 Former GOP Members of Congress Denounce Trump’s ‘Unconstitutional’ Effort to Fund Border Wall
A group of 19 former Republican members of Congress have denounced President Donald Trump's efforts to redirect funds to build a wall along the border of Mexico and the U.S., calling the efforts “unconstitutional” in an amicus brief supporting a lawsuit against the move.
“The Constitution created three co-equal branches of government, with the power to make laws and spend funds placed squarely in the hands of Congress. President Trump's national emergency declaration, and his redirection of military funds to build a border wall, is a clear attempt to usurp that role for himself,” Mickey Edwards, who served as a Republican in the House of Representatives for Oklahoma from 1977 to 1993, said in a statement emailed to Newsweek.
“As members of Congress, we took an oath to support and defend the Constitution—and we continue to live by that oath today,” he continued. “That's why we, and our Republican colleagues, must speak out against this contrived national ‘emergency.'”
...
Fucking A! Either one of those fuckers and bitches would just roll out the red carpet for ALL illegals from everywhere. What is needed is someone with BALLS to do what has to be done. Democrats need not apply.The Western Journal said:However, Trump has shown again and again that, distasteful as they may be, tariffs and the threat of tariffs are nevertheless extraordinarily effective tools to garner compliance and cooperation.
Mexico has never cooperated to this extent in addressing the ******* immigration situation, and this recent cooperation has only come about by way of Trump’s tariff threat.
Does anybody really think that a President Hillary Clinton, or Joe Biden, or Kamala Harris, or Elizabeth Warren, or Pete Buttigieg would ever achieve similar results, or even try to in the first place?
Yeah, he was doing some major ass kissing and dick sucking. He was checking on the asylum seekers to see what they need and blah blah blah."In fact, between October 2016 and February 2019, 43 percent of foreigners convicted of U.S. crimes came through the northern border, while just 15 percent entered through the southern border.
The other 42 percent gained entry at ports and airports. "
Premium Link Upgrade
The wall should be built on the northern border.
#MAGA![]()