Green group, Dem lawmaker sue Trump to stop border wall

[Equinox Moon]

Source: The Hill

April 12, 2017
An environmental group is suing the Trump administration, saying its proposed wall along the southern border violates environmental law.

The Center for Biological Diversity filed the lawsuit along with Rep. Raul Graijalva (D-Ariz.), saying the Department of Homeland Security is obligated to draft a new environmental review to examine the impacts of the wall and other border enforcement activities.

“Trump’s border wall will divide and destroy the incredible communities and wild landscapes along the border,” Kierán Suckling, the group’s executive director, said in a Wednesday statement.

“Endangered species like jaguars and ocelots don’t observe international boundaries and should not be sacrificed for unnecessary border militarization,” he added.

“American environmental laws are some of the oldest and strongest in the world, and they should apply to the borderlands just as they do everywhere else,” said Grijalva, who is co-chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and the top Democrat in the House Natural Resources Committee.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/328485-green-group-sues-trump-to-stop-border-wall

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Sounds good to me! I think about the wild life and environmental impact. This is key!

[greymattermom]

1. Neil Gorsuch

testified that his job is to read existing law and to take it literally as written. So, if existing law prevents the wall, will he take the law literally?

[Equinox Moon]

2. I don't think congress will fund the wall, so it won't get that far.

But, good question.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Gorsuch, like Roberts, Alito and Thomas, will do what the Koch bros tell them to do.

The ONLY exception was when Roberts saved ACA so to speak but in doing so also did it GREAT harm.

When he did this it was to maintain the huge profits for health insurers.

There is NO difference between these 4 jackasses and someone like Mike Pence or Paul Ryan. They are political operatives who were groomed and positioned to do the bidding of Wall Street while throwing bones to the religious idiots who hate women and gay folks.

[JudyM]

5. Scalia was flagrantly a political operative as well as a religious idiot.

[riversedge]

4. It would have to relate to the Constitution for Gorsuch to get