CA Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom channels Taylor Swift: Trump wall is never ever ever going to happen

[Miles Archer]

California Can Stop Trump’s Wall In Court, Warns State Official
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom says the president-elect’s border barrier is “never going to happen.”
01/10/2017 01:09 am ET

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/california-trump-wall-lawsuit_us_58744fdbe4b099cdb0ff2a8a

California’s lieutenant governor has warned that the state can use an environmental lawsuit to block President-elect Donald Trump’s efforts to build a border wall.

The state could sue under the California Environmental Quality Act or its federal equivalent to stop the wall, a proposal that Gavin Newsom called “laughable” in an interview on the Golden State podcast.

“There’s something called CEQA in California — there’s NEPA [National Environmental Policy Act] at the federal level,” said Newson, who’s running for governor in 2018. “There’s indigenous lands and autonomies as it relates to governance on those lands. There are all kinds of obstructions as it relates to just getting zoning approval and getting building permits. All those things could be made very, very challenging for the administration.”

That’s “just simply never going to happen,” Newsom said of the wall. “It’s logistically impossible. It’s a laughable proposal that somehow Mexico’s going to pay for it. It’s just not going to happen.”

[Jake Stern]

1. A little prognostication

"And we'll start with today's top story. In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court has held that the State of California cannot use environmental laws to halt construction of the border wall approved by congress last year."