It’s not been a great week for the great-left-hopers.
Having been summarily embarrassed by Mueller’s performance, Democrats just lost another ‘fight’ as Bloomberg reports that the Supreme Court has cleared President Trump’s administration to start using disputed funds to construct more than 100 miles of fencing along the Mexican border.
The decision allows the president to take his biggest step yet toward erecting his long-promised wall.
How did we get here?
As The Hill details, U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam in California, an Obama appointee, issued a permanent injunction blocking officials from utilizing $2.5 billion of the roughly $6 billion in diverted military dollars, siding with the groups’ arguments that building the wall would cause “irreparable harm” to their interests at the border.
And the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 ruling earlier this month, declined to temporarily halt that injunction, finding that “the use of those funds violates the constitutional requirement that the Executive Branch not spend money absent an appropriation from Congress.”
House Democrats also attempted to sue to stop the diversion of the Pentagon dollars for a wall, claiming that only lawmakers can allocate federal funding under the Constitution.
Solicitor General Noel Francisco argued that the needs of the administration outweighed those of groups like the ACLU and Sierra Club who are challenging the use of the Defense Department funds for the wall. And he said that if the funds remain frozen until the end of the fiscal year, authorities may not be able to use them at all.
And now, with the court’s four liberal justices at least partially dissenting, the justices lifted the lower court freeze, confirming the Trump administration can start using military funds to construct a wall on the southern border, handing the president a major legal victory.
President Trump, as one would expect, is very pleased:
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!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2019
The case before the Supreme Court involved just the $2.5 billion in Defense Department funds, which the administration says will be used to construct more than 100 miles of fencing. One project would replace 46 miles of barrier in New Mexico for $789 million. Another would replace 63 miles in Arizona for $646 million. The other two projects in California and Arizona are smaller.
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Full decision below:
via zerohedge
I’m confused…..money to build/replace 100 miles of Border Wall fence but no mention of ANY fence to be built in TEXAS…..We have probably the MOST exposure for ILLEGAL immigrants to enter the US, and have proven this over the last year, but we will leave this area with NO ADDITIONAL WALL. I guess they think that the Rio Grande will be enough to deter the ILLEGAL entry. Some of the Rio can be crossed by WADING ACROSS….and there are hundreds of miles of the exposed border…..maybe I don’t understand BUILDING A BORDER WALL slogan….
Even some justices on the US Supreme Court have noticed America has a major crisis on its southern border? Wow, miracles still happen.
After all the blocking and delaying by Pelosi and her band of nasties, Trump has every right to express some joy via a Supreme Court decision to overrule the 9th Circuit Court.
It was a given signaled by the Democrats that they would do all they could to prevent Trump from “getting a victory”. The issue of a “Trump victory” was more meaningful to them than migrants attempting every which way to break into U.S. territory, even risking their lives in the process. And, the complaining of the Democrats, not about illegal entries, but vivid tales of migrant treatment and blaming an undermanned Border Patrol who were inheriting duties of medics, ambulance crews, other duties previously unknown to U.S. Border Patrol. It should be clear to anyone that the quicker our borders are sealed, once and for all, immigration is going to be as hectic as it can be. I hold both political parties for avoiding, delaying, resisting that wide-open border which is what….2000 miles long? It has been sheer insanity to leave it wide-open. Not only do poor migrants want “in” any way they can, but because that border is so open, our country is full of illicit drugs, resulting in drug-heads. The politicians of the past kept far from that reality. Then, along comes one man, Donald Trump, who is hated by the Democrats for breathing! He’s right to close the border to make it orderly! It wouldn’t matter what he does, the Democrats are obsessed with hate, which ultimately ends up in Uncle Sam’s lap!