{"id":16414,"date":"2020-06-27T04:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/trump-wrongly-diverted-2-5b-for-border-wall-fed-appeals-court-rules\/"},"modified":"2020-06-27T04:13:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T01:13:00","slug":"trump-wrongly-diverted-2-5b-for-border-wall-fed-appeals-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/trump-wrongly-diverted-2-5b-for-border-wall-fed-appeals-court-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"#Trump wrongly diverted $2.5B for border wall, fed appeals court rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Trump wrongly diverted $2.5B for border wall, fed app<\/a>eals court rules<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 26, 2020 |<\/span> 9:13pm <\/p>\n

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\n SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 A federal appeals court on Friday ruled against the Trump administration in its transfer of $2.5 billion from military construction projects to build sections of the U.S. border wall with Mexico, ruling it illegally sidestepped Congress, which gets to decide how to use the funds.<\/p>\n

In two opinions, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a coalition of border states and environmental groups that contended the money transfer was unlawful and that building the wall would pose environmental threats.<\/p>\n

The rulings were the latest twist in the legal battle that has largely gone Trump\u2019s way. Last July, the\u00a0Supreme Court allowed the $2.5 billion to be spent\u00a0while the litigation continued, blunting the impact of the latest appeals court action.<\/p>\n

The administration has already awarded much of the money, including a\u00a0$1.3-billion job in Arizona\u00a0that was announced last month. Trump visited Yuma, Arizona, on Tuesday to mark completion of the 200th mile of border wall during his administration, much of it with the transferred military funds that the 9th Circuit panel found illegal.<\/p>\n

After the $2.5 billion transfer of military funds, the Pentagon diverted another $3.6 billion that an appeals court in New Orleans ruled in January could be spent.<\/p>\n

Still, critics of Trump\u2019s wall praised the rulings on Friday for upholding the Constitution, which grants Congress the power of the purse.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe funds that he is pilfering, which were appropriated by Congress, are vital to support the safety and well-being of the brave men and women in uniform, as well as their families,\u201d said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat.<\/p>\n

The 9th Circuit ruled that the Trump administration not only lacked the authority to authorize the transfer of funds, \u201cbut also violated an express constitutional prohibition designed to protect individual liberties.\u201d<\/p>\n

The vote on both rulings was 2-1 with judges appointed by former President Bill Clinton in the majority and a Trump nominee dissenting.<\/p>\n

The panel said the government was proceeding with border wall construction without ensuring compliance with any environmental regulations, thereby harming the interests of Sierra Club members who visit the border region for hiking, bird watching and other recreational activities.<\/p>\n

The panel also held that the government failed to show that construction would halt the flow of illegal drugs. It said the administration had cited drug statistics but didn\u2019t address how the wall would have an impact on the problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe executive branch\u2019s failure to show, in concrete terms, that the public\u2019s interest favors a border wall is particularly significant given that Congress determined fencing to be a lower budgetary priority and the Department of Justice\u2019s data points to a contrary conclusion,\u201d the majority wrote.<\/p>\n

The White House said the decisions won\u2019t interfere with its ability to continue building the wall and noted that the Supreme Court has overturned many of the court\u2019s rulings.<\/p>\n

After the Supreme Court gave the green light last year to begin work on the wall using Defense Department money, the Justice Department vowed to continue to defend the administration\u2019s efforts to protect the southern border.<\/p>\n

California Attorney General<\/a> Xavier Becerra, who led a 20-state coalition of attorneys general that sued the administration, praised the court decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the Trump administration steals public funds to build an unauthorized wall at the southern border, families across the country are struggling to pay their bills,\u201d Becerra said. \u201cThey deserve to know that their hard-earned dollars are going where Congress intended \u2014 to benefit them and their communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

The American Civil Liberties Union, which sued on behalf of Sierra Club and Southern Border Communities Coalition, said if the Trump administration appeals, the case will go back to the Supreme Court where the ACLU will seek to tear down sections of the wall that were built with the military money.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no undoing the damage that\u2019s been done, but we will be back before the Supreme Court to finally put a stop to this destructive wall,\u201d said ACLU staff attorney Dror Ladin.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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