Donald Trump's border wall proposal takes some $2.5bn in Department of Defence funds
with the lower court, prompting the Trump administration to rush to the Supreme Court for relief. The government wants the justices to issue a ruling by July 26th to permit it to use a pot of money in the defence budget to get started on the wall. Justice Elena Kagan—who handles such emergency appeals from the Ninth Circuit—has given wall challengers until July 19th to submit a written reply. The Supreme Court will rule soon afterwards.is relatively narrow.
The appeals court panel’s 2-1 ruling on July 3rd largely tracked the lower-court decision, with N. Randy Smith dissenting. But Judges Richard Clifton and Michelle Friedland added a rhetorical flourish to their opinion.
In his plea last week, Noel Francisco, Mr Trump’s solicitor general, told the Supreme Court that the district and circuit court’s views rest on “a misreading of the statutory text”. The law permits the president to add money to an existing budget line like border fencing even if Congress did not agree to the White House’s full funding package. Section 8005, he wrote, only bars the invention of entirely new lines Congress never dreamt of or explicitly deleted from the budget.
A year ago, the Supreme Court narrowly blessed Mr Trump’s ban on travel from mostly Muslim countries. The lineup—five Republican-appointed justices siding with the president’s policy, four Democratic appointees opposing it—gave fresh support to the view that the Supreme Court is a highly politicised institution. Now, while on their summer vacation, the justices have another presidential campaign pledge from Mr Trump to contemplate.
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