A federal judge has blocked Trump from using money that was originally for military construction to build the wall:
FOX LA – A federal judge issued a nationwide injunction blocking the Trump administration from using military construction funds for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
The judge’s ruling was for a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, El Paso Division.
The El Paso County and Border Network for Human Rights sued the Trump administration on Oct. 11, 2019, claiming that because the “Presidential Proclamation on Declaring a National Emergency Concerning the Southern Border of the United States” that sought additional funds for border wall funding was in violation of the 2019 Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) and is unlawful.
The plaintiffs sought for the court to issue a declaratory judgement that the proclamation is unlawful and to permanently enjoin the Trump administration from using funds appropriated by the CAA for “military construction” and “support for counterdrug activities” on building a border wall.
Senior U.S. District Judge David Briones issued a declaratory judgement that declared Trump’s proclamation to be unlawful.
“It is finally ordered” that officials from the Trump administration are “permanently enjoined” from using the funds beyond the $1.375 billion in the CAA for border wall construction, the ruling said.
Same old song and dance. Trump wants to do something. The left sues and a liberal judge rules Trump’s action is unconstitutional and blocks Trump from doing it. The Supreme Court then releases the block on Trump and rules that his action is actually constitutional. Rinse and repeat.
I said all that to say we’ll see where this eventually ends up, but this is far from over.
And in case you were wondering, Judge David Briones is a Clinton appointee.