Court Smacks Down Funding of Trump's Beloved Wall
President Donald Trump’s biggest campaign promise, to build a wall along the United States-Mexico border, looks less likely to ever happen thanks to Friday court rulings in two separate cases. Unless, of course, Mexico suddenly decides to pay for it.
The US District Court for Northern California made permanent a preliminary decision to block Trump’s attempt to take $2.5 billion in federal defense funding to build parts of the wall in El Centro, California, and New Mexico. In the ruling, U.S. District Judge Haywood S. Gilliam Jr. said that Trump’s lawyers provided “no new evidence or argument for why the court should depart from its prior decision, and it will not.”
The suit was originally filed by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who said of the decisions: “These rulings critically stop President Trump’s illegal money grab to divert $2.5 billion of unauthorized funding for his pet project. All President Trump has succeeded in building is a constitutional crisis, threatening immediate harm to our state. President Trump said he didn’t have to do this and that he would be unsuccessful in court. Today we proved that statement true.”
“We’ll appeal it right away,” Trump said, responding to the news at a press conference following the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, Japan on Saturday. “It’s very unfair. We’re building a lot of wall. But we had a ruling just yesterday, late, from a judge in the 9th Circuit. There’s no reason that that should have happened.”
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