Washington, D.C., district court Judge Trevor McFadden threw out House Democrats' lawsuit
seeking an injunction against President Trump's emergency border wall
funding reallocation, saying that the matter is fundamentally a
political dispute and that the politicians lack standing to make a legal
case.
Trump had declared a national emergency
this past February over the humanitarian crisis at the southern border,
following Congress' failure to fund his border wall legislatively.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and House Democrats then filed
suit in April, charging that Trump was "stealing from appropriated
funds” by moving $6.7 billion from other projects toward border wall
construction.
Democrats
argued that the White House had "flouted the fundamental
separation-of-powers principles and usurped for itself legislative power
specifically vested by the Constitution in Congress."
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