BOOM! SUPREME COURT TURNS DOWN CHALLENGE TO TRUMP’S
WALL, by
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Democrats had handed off the ball to the environmentalists over the building of
a border wall. They lost the case in lower court and were challenging that
ruling with the Supreme Court. SCOTUS will not accept frivolous cases.
They
won’t take the case up if they see you have no chance of winning. But, only
four judges need to vote in favor of taking the case up, so that means at least
one liberal judge agreed the case had no merit. The enviros never stood a
chance because a 1996 gave the power to waive environmental law to the Attorney
General. Later that authorization went to the Secretary of Homeland Security.
You can’t fight it in court, only the legislature.
From The Daily Caller - “It’s disappointing that the Supreme Court won’t consider this important
constitutional issue,” Brian Segee, a senior attorney at the Center for
Biological Diversity (CBD), told The Daily Caller News Foundation by email.
“Trump has abused his power to wreak havoc along the border to score political
points. He’s illegally sweeping aside bedrock environmental and public health
laws. We’ll continue to fight Trump’s dangerous wall in the courts and in
Congress.”
A 1996 law
authorized the attorney general (and later the Homeland Security secretary) to
build border barriers to deter illegal immigration. In that connection, the law
gave the Department of Homeland Security secretary power to exempt certain
border projects from environmental laws like the Endangered Species Act, as
well as other legal rules, to ensure quick construction.
The law also
restricts the jurisdiction of courts to hear legal challenges to the
secretary’s waivers, and provides that such lawsuits must be lodged on an
accelerated timetable.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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