New challenge heard to Trump’s emergency for border wall
Posted August 29, 2019 12:41 pm.
EL PASO, Texas — Legal groups are mounting another challenge to President Donald Trump’s use of Pentagon funding for a border wall one month after the Supreme Court ruled in Trump’s favour.
A judge heard arguments Thursday in El Paso, Texas, over a lawsuit filed by the local county government and an immigrant advocacy group, the Border Network for Human Rights.
U.S. District Judge David Briones didn’t immediately rule on a request for a preliminary injunction.
Kristy Parker, a lawyer for the legal group Protect Democracy Project, says the lawsuit makes broader arguments than the case presented to the Supreme Court.
The Justice Department argues Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to fund the wall cannot be reviewed by any judge. The department declined comment Thursday.
Crews in Arizona and New Mexico are currently building sections of barriers.
The Associated Press
