Pentagon Funds Okayed for the Border Wall
The Border Wall Business is slowly coming to a conclusion of sorts.
The Supreme Court has said that Pres. Trump can use defense funding to complete it.
I will not say “That settles that,” because as we all know, the howling, weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth on the left side of the fence will continue, period. I am waiting for the more loud and ignorant remarks to be thrown into media outlets, including that egregious number about ‘It’s just like the Berlin Wall’, a quote for Rep Occasionally-Conscious-and-Truly-Ignorant of the real world and its history.
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To quote a youtub(of filth) commenter, “I’d rather be American than Democrat.”
Who would have ever thought that this country would have to assert its sovereignty by battling one of our political parties…
I’m a hardliner, apparently, because I can read, understand, have a working and rational notion of how the following should be implemented:
[E]stablish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.
To yield one point of concession to the Others, if you cut the above apart and put it together while huffing paint, then yes, unrestrained illegal immigration makes sense.
Between this and Trump shooting both Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and Al Sharptongue in the face via twitter, it’s starting out to be an interesting week.
“It’s just like the Berlin Wall”
So Trump is building a wall to keep Americans from fleeing left wing ideology?
That’s what Her Nitwittedness said about the border wall a few weeks ago. She got hammered for it.
I wonder where O’crazy-Cortex will stage a fake bawlfest next, like where she got exposed doing so at an empty lot? Yeah, liberals DO forget that The Berlin Wall was built to keep people IN some wonderful Socialist paradise. Come to think of it, they screech about the Russians meddling in our elections while wanting illegal aliens to vote, so WHO is asking for foreign intervention?
Liberalism is truly a Mental Disorder.
After the 2015 baltimore riots, there was the “white Flight” out of the area which left a shit load of vacant buildings, trash,vermin etc. So trump calls out the racist King elijah about worrying more about the border instead of the district that he represents and he hadn’t done shit about it since hes been there. So sharpie sharpton and the king are going for photo ops in the hood not realizing that with the cameras there, people will see what the hood really looks like. Great chess move by Trump. I used to go to the Dennis Smith Firehouse Magazine conventions which started around 1991 at the inner harbor and I remember that the whole tourist/ visitor perimeter were surrounded by the Baltimore PD. Dennis (FDNY)& Author of report from Engine 82 sold the Magazine and it is now called Firehouse Expo which in 2016 pulled out of the harbor and now have their convention, seminars and exhibition hall in Nashville Tenn. So break out the popcorn and soda pop and watch the chapter play (serial) go on and on.
The ruling (order actually) does not say that Trump can build the wall.
The order lifts the injunction of a lower Federal Court which was upheld by the Ninth Circuit. The injunction prevented the work / design / issuance of contracts going forward while the case as to whether the President (any President) could use funds from one budgeted area in an “declared emergency” for another purpose was being heard.
The case to decide that question is still pending and going forward into the Ninth Circuit.
The Supreme Court order states that the stay from will automatically be terminated pending the outcome of the appeal in the Ninth Circuit, the granting of cert in the Supreme Court, and the Court’s final decision on the case.
In other words, this is not a declaration or final decision that the wall can be built, but rather an order saying the work on the wall can proceed while the case to decide whether the wall can be built is actually decided.
Here’s the order:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf/19a60_o75p.pdf
Forgot to mention that the injunction against the wall was initially issued, in part, because of environmental groups claims that it would do “irreparable harm” to the environment.
The case is a two pronged “attack” on the wall. The first is funding and the second is the environment.
You are correct.
However, the work may proceed.
Once the wall or portions of it are actually built, it is going to be difficult if not impossible to tear it down.
Especially if the Repubs win the house in the meantime and can actually fund the wall construction
Breyer’s partial dissent mentions the problem with taking down the wall if the government loses the case:
“If we grant the stay, the Government may begin construction of a border barrier that would cause irreparable harm to the environment and to respondents, according to both respondents and the District Court. The Government’s only response to this claim of irreparable harm is that, if respondents ultimately prevail, the border barrier may be taken down (with what funding, the Government does not say). But this is little comfort because it is not just the barrier, but the construction itself (and presumably its later destruction) that contributes to respondents’ injury.”
The government (the administration) is representing that if they lose the case on the wall based on “irreparable harm to the environment,” they will take it down and indeed would probably be forced to take it down.
They do not define “irreparable harm to the environment”. Catchy phrases are not valid. If they can’t be specific, their argument is bogus.
You know that and I know that, and the whole ecohippie/warmunist thing is beginning to wear thin. The “support” isn’t from science; it comes from truly valid sources like actors and singers.
Legal definition “irreparable harm:”
“Irreparable harm is a legal concept whch argues that the type of harm threatened cannot be corrected through monetary compensation or conditions cannot be put back the way they were. Examples of such irreparable harm may arise in cutting down shade trees, polluting a stream, not giving a child needed medication, not supporting an excavation which may cause collapse of a building, tearing down a structure, among other actions or omissions.
Irreparable harm is often required to be shown to claim that a judge should order an injunction, writ, temporary restraining order or other equitable judicial action. The party seeking such relief will argue that the judicial action is required to prevent an imminent injury for which there is no other way to prevent the threatened harm.
The standard for showing irreparable has been explained by the D.C. Circuit as follows:
“First, the injury must be both certain and great; it must be actual and not theoretical. Injunctive relief ‘will not be granted against something merely feared as liable to occur at some indefinite time.’ It is also well settled that economic loss does not, in and of itself, constitute irreparable harm. . . . Implicit in each of these principles is the further requirement that the movant substantiate the claim that irreparable injury is ‘likely’ to occur. Bare allegations of what is likely to occur are of no value since the court must decide whether the harm will in fact occur. The movant must provide proof that the harm has occurred in the past and is likely to occur again, or proof indicating that the harm is certain to occur in the near future.””
https://definitions.uslegal.com/i/irreparable-harm/
In this case, the argument is that the wall would interrupt migratory patterns and breeding areas of a number of species. It is not an argument on “climate change.”
How come osamabama and his peeps okayed the moola shmoola to build the wall/fence until Trump got elected. How come the administration doesn’t show clinton and osambama wanting to control the open borders on TV to try to keep out the illegals.
Inconvenient truth. You see, denial of reality, referencing what you said, is a mental disorder.
“Good fences make good neighbors…” ~ Robert Frost, Mending Wall poem, 1914
Expecting an endangered ant, gnat, flea or worm to be discovered as being threatened as the next delaying tactic.
Dang i fone. See below.
using that logic, Baltimore would never get a wall built around it.
How about a hermaphroditic lizard-creature that feeds on its own feces, scientific name is Larszardis Berserkeleum also know as the Red Turd-eater?
Is it not the FIRST Duty of the Commander in Chief to protect the citizens of this Country? Doesn’t that tie into that whole oath like all of us took “…defend the Constitution…all enemies, foreign and domestic…”
Speaking of which, can someone show me in the Constitution that gives the right to “free sh^t” to people who break the law to get into this Country?
“Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.” – Ronald Reagan
Which logically follows from Ford’s preceding comment on the proper role of the Federal government:
“. . . a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”