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Home Front: Politix
Supreme Court clears way for Trump to use Pentagon funds for border wall
2019-07-27
"National Defense" right?
[NY Post] The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Trump administration to tap Pentagon funds to build sections of a border wall with Mexico.

The Supreme Court said Friday that it would lift a freeze on the money put in place by a lower court. The Supreme Court's action means the Trump administration can tap the funds and begin work on four contracts it has awarded. Four liberal justices wouldn't have allowed construction to start.

A trial court initially froze the funds in May and an appeals court kept that freeze in place earlier this month. The freeze had prevented the government from tapping approximately $2.5 billion in Defense Department money to replace existing sections of barrier in Arizona, California and New Mexico with more robust fencing.
The New York Times has more, including:
The court’s four more liberal justices dissented. One of them, Justice Stephen G. Breyer, wrote that he would have allowed preparatory work but not construction.
Posted by:Frank G

#5  ...their purview?

Sort missed the last century of assumption of all powers by our aristocracy? They believe nothing is beyond their purview or authority. They sit for life and do not have the consent of the governed. You dare call it a republic.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-07-27 15:19  

#4  This is good news. But I would like to have seen the Supreme Court give a little more guidance (or direct instructions) to lower courts not to meddle in things that are beyond their purview.
Posted by: Tom   2019-07-27 13:11  

#3  Predictably, the action will shift to the UN and "world courts" in eurine-land. No surprise which side those entities will weigh in on. Even less surprise they will be totally ignored by the US until the next time we have a "citizen of the world" president...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-07-27 11:33  

#2  Deluge = bullets.
Posted by: Uleck Spererong9442   2019-07-27 08:45  

#1  The freeze had prevented the government from tapping approximately $2.5 billion in Defense Department money to replace existing sections of barrier in Arizona, California and New Mexico with more robust fencing.

The court’s four more liberal globalist justices dissented. FIFY. So much for a contract that begins with "We, the People of the United States..." Four have no use for that contract.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Trump is your last best hope before the deluge.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-07-27 06:55  

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