Trump admin asks Supreme Court to allow military funds for border wall construction

[babylonsister]

Trump admin asks Supreme Court to allow military funds for border wall construction
By Jacqueline Thomsen - 07/12/19 06:34 PM EDT


The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to intervene and issue an order that would allow it to move forward and use military funds for a wall on the southern border.

In the filing, the administration asked the court to lift a district court order that placed a permanent injunction on the Trump administration’s diversion of some military funds for the border wall.

Solicitor General Noel Francisco wrote in his filing that he is asking for the justices to issue an “immediate administrative stay” of the injunction, as the Department of Justice appeals it to the 9th Circuit.

The request came after the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week to not issue a stay on District Judge Haywood Gilliam’s order blocking officials from using some of the diverted military funds for the wall construction.

The panel of judges overseeing the appeal wrote in the 2-1 ruling that “the use of those funds violates the constitutional requirement that the Executive Branch not spend money absent an appropriation from Congress.”

And the majority opinion stated that there is a “strong likelihood” that the groups opposing the diversion of the Defense Department funds toward the border wall would succeed in their efforts.

The Supreme Court is on recess until October, but does release orders during the summer months.

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https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/452892-trump-admin-asks-supreme-court-to-allow-military-funds-for-border

[marble falls]

1. One would think a world class brain would figure out how to let the wall ...

die a quiet death.

[Farmer-Rick]

2. I'm sure the Supremes will dance to the tune they are suppose to.

They are there to rubber stamp anything the orange buffoon and traitor wants them to rubber stamp.

Yeah, dictatorship. This is what our American capitalist kings, like the Koch bros, the Waltons, the Gates, the Bezos and the Zuckerbergs, have so yearned for. Free and unbridled ability to do whatever their little manhoods want.

Like Epstein did.

[Iliyah]

3. WH believes that the US SC belongs only to them.

Only serves them not the people of The United States of America.

Hell, look at the DOJ.

[912gdm]

4. did other admins run to the supreme court as much as this one seems to do?

I donno if the current media is framing this but it seems like Trumpco just wants to rush to the SC when they dont get their way

[Turbineguy]

5. Next:

He will ask the Supreme Court to make him president for life.