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left-of-center2012

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Sat Jun 27, 2020, 01:09 PM Jun 2020

Trump's spending for border wall rejected by U.S. appeals court

A federal appeals court on Friday said U.S. President Donald Trump was wrong to divert $2.5 billion meant for the Pentagon to build part of his long-sought wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. In a pair of 2-1 decisions, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the White House lacked constitutional authority for the transfer, noting that Congress had denied the funding and finding no “unforeseen military requirement” to justify it.

The court also said California and New Mexico, which share a border with Mexico and were among 20 states suing the government, had legal standing to sue.

Chief Judge Sidney Thomas said “the Executive Branch’s failure to show, in concrete terms, that the public interest favors a border wall is particularly significant given that Congress determined fencing to be a lower budgetary priority and the Department of Justice’s own data points to a contrary conclusion.”

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the decisions “a great victory for the rule of law,” saying Trump undermined military readiness to fulfill his “outrageous campaign promise” to build a wall.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-wall-decision/trumps-spending-for-border-wall-rejected-by-u-s-appeals-court-idUSKBN23X2P3

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Trump's spending for border wall rejected by U.S. appeals court (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Jun 2020 OP
What's going to happen? no_hypocrisy Jun 2020 #1

no_hypocrisy

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1. What's going to happen?
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 04:33 PM
Jun 2020

If the confiscated funds are already spent for 2020, does this ruling mean that Trump can't take a second grab at the 2021 Pentagon budget?

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