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Breaking: Supreme Court Okays Proceeding With Border Wall, Delivers Huge Victory to Trump

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Late Friday afternoon the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in favor of the Trump administration, staying two rulings by an Oakland-based federal judge that stopped Trump’s attempt to use military construction funds to help build a border wall, according to Politico.

The SCOTUS ruling clears the way for Trump to use some $2.5 billion in military construction funds to construct portions of the border wall in Arizona, California and New Mexico.

The decision was along partisan lines, with each Republican-appointed justice voting in favor of the administration and each Democrat-appointed justice voting against, save Justice Breyer who was willing to let the contracting process proceed but not actual construction.

The lower courts framed Trump’s plan as an attempt to circumvent Congress’ control of the purse.

The administration, however, argued that expansion of the wall would help address the urgent issue of drug trafficking. The administration’s original plan was to shift that $2.5 billion in military funds to counter drug operations, which is provisionally allowed.

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The president celebrated the decision on Twitter, noting that the ruling was a “Big WIN for Border Security and the Rule of Law.”

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Josh Manning is deputy managing editor for assignment at The Western Journal. He holds a masters in public policy from Harvard University and has a background in higher education.
Josh Manning grew up outside of Memphis, TN and developed a love of history, politics, and government studies thanks to a life-changing history and civics teacher named Mr. McBride.

He holds an MPP from Harvard University and a BA from Lyon College, a small but distinguished liberal arts college where later in his career he served as an interim vice president.

While in school he did everything possible to confront, discomfit, and drive ivy league liberals to their knees.

After a number of years working in academe, he moved to digital journalism and opinion. Since that point, he has held various leadership positions at The Western Journal.

He's married to a gorgeous blonde who played in the 1998 NCAA women's basketball championship game, and he has two teens who hate doing dishes more than poison. He makes life possible for two boxers -- "Hank" Rearden Manning and "Tucker" Carlson Manning -- and a pitbull named Nikki Haley "Gracie" Manning.
Education
MPP from Harvard University, BA from Lyon College
Location
Phoenix, Arizona
Languages Spoken
English, tiny fragments of college French
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Writing, politics, Christianity, social media curation, higher education, firearms




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