Appeals Court Allows Trump To Divert $3.6 Billion In Military Funds For Border Wall

[Eugene]

Source: NPR

A federal appeals court has handed the Trump administration a victory by allowing the president to tap military construction funds to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

A divided 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued the decision late Wednesday reversing a lower court order that stopped Trump from using $3.6 billion in U.S Defense Department money to construct the long-promised border wall.

The court noted that in July, the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a similar freeze on a separate source of military funding that Trump would like to use to pay for border barriers.

"The Government is entitled to the same relief here," wrote the three-judge panel in the opinion.

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January 9, 2020 4:42 PM ET
BOBBY ALLYN

Updated at 5:51 p.m. ET


Read more: https://www.npr.org/2020/01/09/794969121/appeals-court-allows-trump-to-divert-3-6-billion-in-military-funds-for-border-wa

[bluestarone]

1. Congress is divided people are divided and

Fucking courts are divided! Up to US!! VOTE VOTE VOTE! 2020

[totodeinhere]

2. It's going to get worse as more and more of his nominations to the federal bench get confirmed.

n/t

[Leghorn21]

3. yeah okay fine

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Legalized embezzlement

This is a large nail in the very concept of fiduciary responsibility. LightFingers will feel empowered all over corporate America, trust funds, nonprofits. Unless of course, the actual rules still apply to them!

[greenjar_01]

5. Why bother with an allocation process

The Dictator works with complete slush fund that he gets to split up as he sees fit.

So sayeth the courts.

Why the US Congress should take a military needs statement seriously ever again is a mystery: they either needed that 3 BILLION (BILLION!) for base construction projects or they didn't. Wackadoodle that anybody can approve of this slush fund and call themselves a conservative.

[yaesu]

6. As of January 9, 2020, the United States Senate has confirmed 187 Article III judges nominated by

tRump, guess stacking the courts pays off

[cstanleytech]

7. A victory for our side as the next Democratic President can now fund medicare for all without

asking Congress for the funds.

[groundloop]

8. OOOOHHHHHH, but SOCIALISM !!!!!!!!!

[Karadeniz]

9. What law was this based on, because it wasn't the constitution.

[SunSeeker]

10. Don't need no stinkin' law when you're a Trumper judge!

[Grokenstein]

11. Four billion bucks for a wall kids climb over for laughs

so Generalissimo Corpulente can feel like he has a big dick, and yet we're told (fill in the blank) can't be funded.

...Which country's the shithole again?

[YOHABLO]

12. The money would be better suited for education.

[jmowreader]

13. The money would be better suited for ANYTHING!

What Trump is not telling you: every inch of the Mexican border that can have a barrier on it had one the day Obama was inaugurated. The rest is impassable terrain.