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By Charlie Savage | The New York Times
The House may pursue a constitutional lawsuit challenging President Trumps use of emergency powers to spend more public funds on a southwestern border wall than Congress was willing to appropriate, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday.
In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the House had claimed a sufficient injury to give lawmakers legal standing to pursue a lawsuit against the Trump administration.
The 24-page ruling partly reversed a decision by a district court judge in June 2019. That ruling had thrown out the lawsuit on the grounds that the House had no legal standing to sue the executive branch over a claimed threat to its constitutionally authorized control over federal spending.
That earlier ruling, by Judge Trevor N. McFadden of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, whom Mr. Trump appointed to the bench, was wrong, the appeals court said. It would undermine the ironclad constitutional rule that the president has no power to spend money without the approval of both the House and the Senate, the panel said.
https://roselawgroupreporter.com/2020/09/appeals-court-permits-house-to-sue-over-trumps-border-wall-spending/
BigmanPigman
(51,651 posts)J_William_Ryan
(1,761 posts)Congress authorized the funding for the military, not Trumps wall of fear, bigotry, and hate.
J_William_Ryan
(1,761 posts)Better news: the case becomes moot after Trump leaves office on January 20, 2021 at Noon.