A federal judge in California ruled on Wednesday that the Trump administration could not use military funds for border wall construction.
Judge Haywood Gilliam Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, an Obama appointee, ruled that the administration’s plan to reallocate defense funding to a series of border construction projects is unlawful.
Gilliam said in his decision that it appeared that the administration had tried to use military funds to circumvent congressional approval, writing that “the border barrier projects Defendants now assert are ‘necessary to support the use of the armed forces’ are the very same projects Defendants sought—and failed—to build under [the Department on Homeland Security’s] civilian authority, because Congress would not appropriate the requested funds.”
It’s the second such ruling in as many days, coming just after a federal judge in Texas similarly ruled in favor of a lawsuit brought by El Paso and a nonprofit.
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JUST IN: Another federal judge blocks Trump from using military funds for border wall https://t.co/jBpPpqp5mO pic.twitter.com/77DU1lBFXa
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