{"id":103007,"date":"2020-08-01T09:36:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T13:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=103007"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:31:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:31:14","slug":"supreme-court-trump-keeps-building-his-border-wall-covfefe-from-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=103007","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court &#8211; Trump Keeps Building His Border Wall &#8211; Covfefe from the left"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/31\/us\/supreme-court-trump-border-wall.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/merlin_169246947_dae8850a-dea7-4044-9afb-212e6287d838-articleLarge.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh no,\u00a0 that Wall is still going up.\u00a0 Every day, every hour,\u00a0 every minute&#8230; that wall keeps getting longer.\u00a0 It appears that about 400 miles of &#8220;That Wall&#8221; will have been replaced or added by years end.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The Supreme Court on Friday\u00a0<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/19pdf\/19a60_bqm1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rejected a request<\/a>\u00a0from environmental groups to stop construction of President Trump\u2019s border wall while the administration seeks review of an appeals court loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">The vote was 5 to 4, with the court\u2019s more conservative members in the majority. Its brief order was unsigned and gave no reasons, which is typical when the court acts on emergency applications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">In dissent, Justice Stephen G. Breyer wrote that he feared that the court\u2019s action effectively decided the case before the justices even considered whether to hear the administration\u2019s appeal. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan joined the dissent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">A year ago, by the same 5-to-4 vote, the court\u00a0<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/18pdf\/19a60_o75p.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">allowed the administration<\/a>\u00a0to start using $2.5 billion in Pentagon money to build the wall on the southwestern border while the case moved forward in the lower courts. In June, a divided three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco,\u00a0<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov\/datastore\/opinions\/2020\/06\/26\/19-16102.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ruled against the administration<\/a>, saying Congress had not authorized the spending.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is the best part:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">But the Supreme Court\u2019s earlier order allowing the construction remains in place and will not expire until the court either denies the administration\u2019s petition seeking review or agrees to hear the administration\u2019s appeal and rules on it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">On July 22, the Sierra Club and the Southern Border Communities Coalition, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union,\u00a0<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/19\/19A60\/148405\/20200722140912601_2020.07.21%20stay%20lift%20motion%20FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asked the justices<\/a>\u00a0to lift their earlier stay. The alternative, the groups said, was to allow the administration to run out the litigation clock and complete construction in Arizona, California and New Mexico even in the face of an appeals court ruling that the work was unlawful.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So President Trump may finish construction in Arizona, California and New Mexico before they can stop him?\u00a0 \u00a0The Sitting President was elected, in part, to build &#8220;That Wall&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Seems like a lot of Covfefe from the left while the President wins bigly.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"story-ad-1-wrapper\" class=\"css-2ninbb\">\n<div id=\"story-ad-1-slug\" class=\"css-l9onyx\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #404040;\">Source: <\/span><em style=\"color: #404040;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/31\/us\/supreme-court-trump-border-wall.html\">Supreme Court Lets Trump Keep Building His Border Wall &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh no,\u00a0 that Wall is still going up.\u00a0 Every day, every hour,\u00a0 every minute&#8230; that wall &hellip; <a title=\"Supreme Court &#8211; Trump Keeps Building His Border Wall &#8211; Covfefe from the left\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=103007\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Supreme Court &#8211; Trump Keeps Building His Border Wall &#8211; Covfefe from the left<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":103008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[472,47,340],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-democrats","category-liberals-suck","category-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103011,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103007\/revisions\/103011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/103008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}