Trump is taking almost $1 billion from Navy shipbuilding projects to build the border wall

Chris · 2020-02-29T14:42:02.175Z

gooddad409:

The judge will be overturned.

I very much doubt that it will happen. The Supreme Court has ruled that the President isn’t authorized to use the power of the purse from Clinton v. New York City back in 1998.

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Clinton v. City of New York

Clinton v. City of New York, 524 U.S. 417 (1998), was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held, 6–3, that the line-item veto, as granted in the Line Item Veto Act of 1996, violated the Presentment Clause of the United States Constitution because it impermissibly gave the President of the United States the power to unilaterally amend or repeal parts of statutes that had been duly passed by the United States Congress. Justice John Paul Stevens wrot The L...

WildRose · 2020-03-01T02:39:29.417Z

USA TODAY

Supreme Court allows border wall spending in battle between President Donald...

The Supreme Court approved President Trump's effort to use $2.5 billion in military funding to build a portion of his long-sought border wall.

He was only able to divert those funds because he declared an emergency.

gooddad409 · 2020-03-01T13:46:46.992Z

WildRose:

Border wall: Supreme Court allows Donald Trump's emergency spending

He was only able to divert those funds because he declared an emergency.

Amazing that the left whines about Trump diverting some money from the navy to the wall.

Trump is the same guy who gave huge boost to military spending over what Obama was spending.

They had no problem with Obama’s paltry military spending though.

If not for double standards and all that.

gooddad409 · 2020-03-01T13:48:42.484Z

WildRose:

Border wall: Supreme Court allows Donald Trump's emergency spending

He was only able to divert those funds because he declared an emergency.

Yeah i thought this had already gone to the SC once. Now they want a 2nd bite at the same apple via judge shopping.