construction of its border wall, since the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals determined that a lower court was wrong to prohibit the government from allocating 3.6 billion from the Army for the border wall.
The Court detailed that the El Paso County and the Border Network for Human Rights they had no legitimacy to challenge the government.
Originally, the plaintiffs filed a legal challenge against the government for the diversion of funds from more than 100 military construction projects.
The appeals court explained that neither the county nor the Border Network proved to have been directly harmed by the Trump administration’s decision.
For this reason, the court reversed a decision of December 2019, issued by a federal district judge. David briones.
Back then, Trump declared a national emergency to take about $ 6 billion for the border wall.
This is because Congress refused to fully fund the president’s barrier, an action that ended in the longest government shutdown in history.
What will happen to Trump’s border wall?
Although the president-elect Joe Biden pledged to end the national emergency decreed by Trump.
The current president has already signed several construction contracts with the funds, in addition, he has already built many new sections of wall on the border.
Furthermore, it is not yet entirely clear how the Fifth Circuit’s decision will move forward, as the Supreme Court agreed to discuss the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision that the transfer of funds was illegal.
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