Sixteen states have come together to sue Trump. The suit, led by California*, seeks a preliminary injunction against Individual I and alleges he does not have the constitutional power to divert funds so he can build pieces of his Wall of Shame to satisfy his white supremacist voting block. He intends to divert $3.6 billion from military construction accounts and $2.5 billion from Defense Department efforts to fight illicit drugs. The states claim that diverting funds already appropriated for other purposes will harm their economies by costing millions of dollars. The wall is being attacked by environmentalists too. The Center for Biological Diversity filed suit over the weekend, also on constitutional grounds. Environmentalists think the wall is an ecological barrier that harms endangered species by preventing their free range across the borderlands, some of which are designated critical habitat or protected reserves.
* Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon and Virginia. All have Democratic governors except Maryland, which has a Democratic Attorney General. Democrats in Congress are planning a vote on a joint resolution to repudiate this dangerous political stunt engineered by Hair Further. If a joint resolution is passed the wannabe dictator will veto it. Obtaining a two-thirds majority to override a veto is politically unlikely. Neither Pelosi nor Schumer, nor any other leading congressional Democrat, has suggested that Trump’s action is an impeachable offense, Lawsuits lead ultimately to a decision by the US Supreme Court which has a five-member ultra-right majority, including two justices nominated by Trump himself. An ineffectual, compromised opposition has allowed this nascent dictatorship to stack the political deck in Washington.