US Judge Rejects Trump Administration Move to Start Wall Construction

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters


May 30, 2019 4:22 PM
Reuters

A federal judge rejected on Thursday an effort by the Trump administration to begin construction on a wall on the border with Mexico while it appeals a ruling that found funding for the wall was likely not authorized by Congress.

U.S. District Court Judge Haywood Gilliam in Oakland, California said in a written order the government was unlikely to prevail on the merits of its appeal, and therefore failed to justify a stay of a preliminary injunction issued last Friday.

A spokesman for the Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Gilliam's order. The government said in a court filing it needed a stay of Friday's injunction to begin wall construction in Arizona and Texas and stem the flow of illegal drugs.

The Trump Administration has said it plans to redirect $6.7 billion from the Departments of Defense and Treasury toward wall construction, after failing to convince Congress to provide the money.

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[Bayard]

1. "the wall was likely not authorized by Congress. "

Yippi-O-kayay!

[Scurrilous]

2. K&R

[machoneman]

3. Like Trumpy said: I'm fucked!

[Achilleaze]

4. No Wall for you, Mr. republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

Go whine to russia about it, ya big whiney baby.

[gademocrat7]

5. So much losing.

Hope the courts continue to smack down trump and his cabal.

[not fooled]

6. No Potemkin village idiotic tiny % of a stupid wall

just to be able to tell your knuckledragging idiotic devotees that you "built the wall."