Judge expands areas where border wall building is barred

[DonViejo]

By MATTHEW CHOI 06/28/2019 10:44 PM EDT

A federal judge on Friday expanded the areas where the Trump administration is barred from building a southern border wall using Defense Department funds.

Judge Haywood Gilliam, of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California, expanded a previous order from May blocking Trump from building the wall in parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. The court added four more sections of the wall along the southern border in Arizona and California to the no-build list, and made permanent the previous order.

Administration officials have pushed for alternate ways to fund the wall after Congress denied Trump the over $5 billion he had requested earlier this year. The administration appealed the court's earlier order last month, arguing that building the wall was a top priority for the administration to stop high levels of drug smuggling.

"Another activist Obama appointed judge has just ruled against us on a section of the Southern Wall that is already under construction," Trump tweeted after Gilliam's earlier order. "This is a ruling against Border Security and in favor of crime, drugs and human trafficking. We are asking for an expedited appeal!"

more
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/28/trump-border-wall-faces-another-barrier-1390391

[watoos]

1. If the wall is already under construction,

Trump better not be using Pentagon money or he is violating a court order. Didn't Schiff recently state that when Trump disobeyed the courts it would be time for impeachment?