{"id":106419,"date":"2020-10-21T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=106419"},"modified":"2020-10-20T21:59:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T01:59:04","slug":"supreme-court-to-hear-case-over-use-of-dod-funds-for-trump-border-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=106419","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court to hear case over use of DoD funds for Trump border wall"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jeff LPH 3 sent me this article.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear the Trump administration\u2019s appeal of a lower court ruling that it improperly diverted Defense Department money to build portions of the border wall with Mexico.<\/p>\n

The high court has previously allowed construction to continue, even after a federal appeals court ruled in June that the administration had illegally sidestepped Congress in transferring the Defense Department funds.<\/p>\n

The case will not be argued before the winter and it\u2019s unclear how the presidential election would affect the case, if Democrat Joe Biden wins the White House.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also not clear whether the administration has spent all of the $2.5 billion it moved to the wall project. Dissenting from a July order that allowed construction to continue, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote that the court\u2019s action \u201cI fear, may operate, in effect, as a final judgment.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Pentagon spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for how much of this year\u2019s $2.5 billion has already been allocated.<\/p>\n

The case has its origins in the 35-day partial government shutdown that started in December of 2018. President Donald Trump ended the shutdown after Congress gave him approximately $1.4 billion in border wall funding, but that was far less than the $5.7 billion he was seeking. Trump then declared a national emergency to take cash from other government accounts to use to construct sections of the wall.<\/p>\n

At the time, the money Trump identified included $2.5 billion in Defense Department money, $3.6 billion from military construction funds and $600 million from the Treasury Department\u2019s asset forfeiture fund.<\/p>\n

The case before the Supreme Court involved just the $2.5 billion in Defense Department funds. The American Civil Liberties Union sued the Trump administration on behalf of the Sierra Club and Southern Border Communities Coalition. California led a similar lawsuit on behalf of several states.<\/p>\n

Building a border wall was one of Trump\u2019s signature campaign pledges four years ago, though he promised then that Mexico would pay for the wall.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Border Patrol says it has completed 321 miles (517 kilometers) of wall during the Trump administration, though almost all of that is replacing existing barriers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Be interesting to see how this plays out. Won’t be any ruling made until well after the election and the new Congress takes over.<\/p>\n

Source; Military Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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