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yortsed snacilbuper

(7,939 posts)
Sat Feb 29, 2020, 01:20 PM Feb 2020

Trump's $3.8 Billion Border Wall Diversion Targeted by ACLU

The Trump administration is violating the Constitution by diverting an additional $3.8 billion in military funds to his planned U.S. border wall with Mexico, a new lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union and Sierra Club claims.

Filed Friday in federal court in San Francisco, the suit says the administration illegally bypassed Congress when President Donald Trump tapped money earmarked for weapons systems and other military expenditures. The construction will also have devastating effects on the environment, according to the complaint.

The suit was filed in federal court in San Francisco -- the same court that last year repeatedly found Trump’s initial transfer of over $6 billion in military funds for the wall was unlawful.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trumps-dollar38-billion-border-wall-diversion-targeted-by-aclu/ar-BB10x15c?ocid=spartanntp

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They repuke court will through it out edhopper Feb 2020 #1

edhopper

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1. They repuke court will through it out
Sat Feb 29, 2020, 01:27 PM
Feb 2020

saying the ACLU doesn't have standing. And if Congress, who would have standing, sued, the Repuke Courts would say they don't want to step in a fight between the other two branches, as they did in the McGann case.
The Courts have abdicated their responsibility.

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