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The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to intervene and lift an injunction imposed by a lower federal court that blocks the administration from using $2.5 billion in military funds to construct the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
The filing has gone to Justice Elena Kagan, who will likely ask environmental groups who brought the original lawsuit to respond with a brief of its own in coming days.
Kagan will also likely ask all her colleagues to weigh in, but its unclear when an order will be issued.
Earlier this month, a divided three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco agreed with a lower court ruling that prevented the government from tapping Defense Department counterdrug money to build high-priority sections of wall in Arizona, California and New Mexico.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-administration-asks-for-supreme-court-intervention-over-border-wall-construction/ar-AAEffB9?li=BBnbcA1
riversedge
(70,218 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)There's some wiggle room and elasticity, of course, but the President can't just take money allocated for X and spend it on Y. Perhaps the Supreme Court needs to explain it to Trump in a Civics 101 way so that even Donald gets it.
lindysalsagal
(20,686 posts)Not how scotus works. Asshat. But he knows nothing about anything.