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Trump Can Use $3.6 Billion in Military Funds for Border Wall, Court Rules

An appeals court panel said President Donald Trump can use $3.6 billion in military funds for the so..

An appeals court panel said President Donald Trump can use $3.6 billion in military funds for the southern border wall.

The Jan. 8 ruling came less than a month after U.S. District Judge David Briones, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton, issued a permanent nationwide injunction against using the funds.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a stay of the Texas judges injunction as the case continues.

Judge Edith Jones, an appointee of President Ronald Reagan, and Trump appointee Judge Andrew Oldham ruled to block the lower courts ruling, while Judge Stephen Higginson, a President Barack Obama appointee, dissented.

The judges who granted the Trump administrations request noted that the Supreme Court recently blocked a similar injunction. The panel also said there was a “substantial likelihood” that the parties challenging the transfer, the county of El Paso, Texas, and the Border Network for Human Rights, didnt have standing to sue the Trump administration.

“The Supreme Court recently stayed a similar injunction from our sister circuit,” the judges wrote (pdf). “The Government is entitled to the same relief here for, among other reasons, the substantial likelihood that Appellees lack Article III standing.”

Higginson, meanwhile, wrote in his dissent: “I am unable to agree, without focused panel deliberation and discussion—possibly aided by dialogue with counsel—that the government presently has shown either a likelihood of success on the merits or irreparable harm in the absence of a stay.” He called to expedite merits assessment by the court, noting the rulings surrounding the border wall involve “weighty issues.”

Trump hailed the decision.

“Breaking News: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals just reversed a lower court decision & gave us the go ahead to build one of the largest sections of the desperately needed Southern Border Wall, Four Billion Dollars. Entire Wall is under construction or getting ready to start!” he said early on Jan. 9 on Twitter.

Breaking News: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals just reversed a lower court decision & gave us the go ahead to build one of the largest sections of the desperately needed Southern Border Wall, Four Billion Dollars. Entire Wall is under construction or getting ready to start!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 9, 2020

“The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has lifted an illegitimate nationwide injunction entered by a lower court, and in doing so has alloRead More – Source
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