Judge rejects House suit to block transfer of billions of dollars for Trump border wall
Source: Washington Post
A federal judge in Washington on Monday rejected a House lawsuit to block spending on President Trump’s plan to build a wall at the border with Mexico. U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden of the District denied a House request to temporarily stop spending on the wall saying the House lacked legal standing to sue the president over he overstepped his power by diverting billions intended for other purposes to pay for it. “While the Constitution bestows upon Members of the House many powers, it does not grant them standing to hale the Executive Branch into court claiming a dilution of Congress’s legislative authority,” McFadden wrote in a 24-page decision, continuing, “The Court therefore lacks jurisdiction to hear the House’s claims and will deny its motion.”
The decision is at odds with a May 24 ruling by a federal judge in California that temporarily blocked part of the plan to build using money Congress never appropriated for that purpose. A central issue in both lawsuits is whether diverting the funds is an illegal act that violates constitutional separation of powers between government branches. Both sets of challenges — the plaintiffs in California included states and environmental — were brought shortly after the president declared a national emergency along the southern border.
The judge in Washington never reached the merits of the Democratic-led House’s claim, ruling instead that a single chamber of Congress does not have legal standing to sue the executive branch. “While the Constitution bestows upon Members of the House many powers, it does not grant them standing to hale the Executive Branch into court claiming a dilution of Congress’s legislative authority,” McFadden, a 2017 Trump appointee, wrote in a 24-page decision, continuing, “The Court therefore lacks jurisdiction to hear the House’s claims and will deny its motion.”
McFadden’s order effectively kills the House suit, which sought to block the administration from tapping not only $1 billion already transferred from military pay and pensions accounts but also money from an emergency military construction fund that the administration said it intends to transfer but has not yet moved. McFadden’s decision ran counter to a 2015 ruling that found the then GOP-led House could sue the Obama administration for allegedly spending on an Affordable Care Act program that Congress never approved, a ruling that would have marked the first time the House was able to challenge an administration in court. The case was settled before it withstood appeal.
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By Washington Post Staff
June 3 at 6:37 PM
U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden of the District on Monday denied a House request to temporarily stop spending on the wall because the House lacked legal standing to sue the president for allegedly overstepping his power by diverting billions intended for other purposes to pay for it.
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as such........................since his ilk think that a King is what should be running this place, typical Tory.......................they lost the revolution and their still pissed off....................
He should be Impeached........................
The military is 50 years overdue for a good audit and for trimming their sails financially. Despite the big "raise' trump claims he gave the military, I bet that wasn't even buying another bag of groceries per week. (If there was a raise at all other than the ones already baked in.)
You can't misappropriate what you don't appropriate to begin with.
Still real disturbed about the F 35, and how quickly all the details are slipping out, through arms sales and maint contracts in foreign countries, by selling them replacement parts etc that can be reverse engineered by russia and china. We paid MIGHTILY for that bird. BILLIONS AND BILLIONS. No healthcare for Americans, but, here 'gyhna' and "russiar', have all our sweat equity. trump and family need a few more contracts to line their pockets.
CONGRESS...we hear everyday you can walk and chew gum. Sounds like you need to STEP ON IT w the financial end of things, and start defunding things that are attacking the Peoples Branch of govt. You know the one, the one that pays the vast amount of taxes. START DOING IT SOON. I hear a lot of "chin music" 
on the nightly news about "All the tools in their toolbox." I'm beginning to wonder if Congress has any idea beyond the basics, on our side, about mechanics and procedure. We need a whole cadre of intricate law specialists, who know how actions will pass judicial muster, and move quicker. Stop paying now bc by the time it takes effect, it'll be election time.
Just bc everything has always moved slowwwwwwwwww, doesn't mean congress can't bump it up and work on THEIR productivity. It's not just for laborers anymore. Let's go!
PS>>>>remember folks, 3 weeks away is our first debate. If they (the gop through us?) can just keep up the delaying, one week here, one week there, we can soon just be talking about our only remedy being the elections again. Hat in hand. Hat in hand.
