“The Constitution assigns to Congress the power of the purse. Under the Appropriations Clause, it is Congress that is to make decisions regarding how to spend taxpayer dollars,” 9th Circuit Judges Richard Clifton and Michelle Friedland wrote. “Congress did not appropriate money to build the border barriers Defendants seek to build here. Congress presumably decided such construction at this time was not in the public interest. It is not for us to reach a different conclusion.
The appeals judges were unsparing about some of the Trump administration’s arguments. Clifton and Friedland deemed “not credible” the Justice Department’s contention that Congress had not denied the administration the funds it was seeking to spend. The groups that obtained the injunction, the Sierra Club and the Southern Border Communities Coalition, said they’ll urge the justices not to lift the order.
“The courts have twice ruled against Trump’s requests to stay this important court order stopping construction of his ruinous wall. Now he is asking the Supreme Court to step in and save his wall, but we will continue to vehemently fight these tactics,” Sierra Club attorney Gloria Smith said. The Justice Department filing with the high court asks the justices to rule on the application by July 26 to allow the funding process to be completed by September 30. Previous filings from the administration said that process needed to begin by early July to be carried out while the funds are still available.
BuildTheWall CrimeWillFall
Trump has to do an environmental impact study on every inch
Build a cage for Barr! Our congress needs to get with the program before its to late! PELOSI push for impeachment now! The clock is ticking faster! You cannot give these guys an inch. Next thing they think they are a ruler!
The DOJ is corrupt thanks to Barr
Pocket billions and make one foot wall. Thief. Show the transparency. Deficit Bk trump drum of
The wall stopped that sub with millions in cocaine huh? Also the freighter owned by JPMorgan Chase with billions in cocaine....
joslyne_raquel Praying for the Lord’s mighty favor on DOJ that the petition will be granted!
Well Trump/McConnell have been packing the court system with unqualified Toadies who will do as they're told.
I can't believe we're seeing our courts enable tyranny! They should have stopped this!
Supreme Court is on Speed Dial nowadays. Pays big dividends to have Cheated Obama and the Dems. Is Brett Squee? Never could get that stuff.
Aren't they off for the summer?
Traitors still outnumber constitutionalists so they're screwed
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Lol !
Good
joslyne_raquel Didn’t think that this would be so hard to protect the US border and it’s citizens. PLEASE just do your job and build the WALL
Barr is doing Trump’s dirty work and working to undermine the separation of the three branches of government - wonder what Trump has on him - wasn’t Barr also affiliated with same law firm representing Epstein- Kirkland & Ellis
How about we use those billions of dollars and is it to take care of the people who are already here with humane conditions and the addition of lawyers and judges to support the processing of asylum seekers in a timely manner How about we spend that money reuniting families!
What a complete waste of money, taxpayers money.
How about addressing the humanitarian crisis at the border? These people need a reality check of the highest order.
Take our defence money to build the wall and be done with it. Isn't that's what Defence Money is for!
Of course they are, but can you call them who they really are? It is not the Justice Department that wants this, it is Barr. It is Barr asking and while he leads the JD, he does not speak for all of them.
Build it...THEY ARE STILL COMING!!
Mnuchin wants to raise the debt limit and we're talking about wasting money on THIS?! I could think if a billion ways to spend money more wisely! Infrastructure? Healthcare? Education?
GOP platform is hatred and greed. Hatred is a full time effort. Greed is set it and forget it GOPTaxScam
Why? Trump's useless wall would never work and would waste billions.
For the Fourth Reich?
Build the wall
And let's not forget that Mexico isn't paying for it. Going to court to spend more US money
So you open the floodgates and the country has no choice but to take 60-75% of your paycheck to support the welfare, socialism and the country goes COLLAPSE. You’re not different, you’re not invincible
Hey Trump ..... tell these courts to kick rocks!!! Damn it !!! They don’t make laws!!!
CowgerCathey Why must America looks like the Sovjet union orders from his boss president Putin gulag archipel is there already
Let’s see if so called Conservative Justices follow the law, or the Fraud.
Tell him to stuff it. No more money for any wall. Ignoramus.
Democrats need to keep drugs coming in becz each drug addict can be paid $30 or so to vote absentee without an address this one reason they don’t care - the other is control drugged up people are easier to control - wake up & write about that!
Stealing money from the military. MAGA Trump does not care about American troops or vets.
Why isn’t he asking Mexico for 2.5 billion dollars?
realDonaldTrump Pay the people back for all your golf trips, what you owe on your inauguration and what you owe for your ego rallies and we'll talk. 🙄
Close the modern day concentration camps and disband ICE and we can talk.
He really does think that he owns the SCOTUS now that Judge Date Rape is on the bench 🤦🏻♂️
Deutsche bank bails him out laundering Russian money
But we're running out of money, and Fred Trump is dead, so he can't bail us out. Oh, wait, the Russians. Yes, they'll be good for some oil. Just what we need more oil. The insanity must stop.
And this is why 45/GOP loaded the Supreme Court.
What happened to Mexico paying for it? Why has everyone stopped asking the question?
ACLU
ToLiveAndDieInLA WangChung (1985)
Translation-tRUmp's flunky Barr asks court to lift court orders.
No wAy!!!!!’
Trump's Justisis Department wants the wall
So... the 'Justice' Dept. is now Trump's mouthpiece? I have to just hope to God that there is a majority of SCOTUS's that have class, sense, morals, a true sense of the law, and see through this charade to issue a resounding 'NO' to their request.
Complete insanity by Trump and Barr. What a waste of federal resources. Only Congress can appropriate public funds not the President. That he couldn’t convince a GOP Congress to find his wall isn’t permission to raid the treasury on his own.
And they will obey, of course. Because the SC has become a part of the DOJ.
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