Judge Blocks Emergency $1 Billion for Border Wall

A federal judge in Oakland, California, is blocking a $1 billion portion of President Donald Trump’s $8 billion emergency budget for building the border wall.

The blocked project used $1 billion allocated by Congress for anti-drug accounts. The preliminary injunction will apply while the judge fully considers the lawsuit filed by the Sierra Club and the Southern Border Communities Coalition, which includes leaders from pro-migration and environmental groups, as well as from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

“Plaintiffs also have shown a likelihood of success as to their argument that Defendants fail to meet the ‘unforeseen military requirement’ condition for the reprogramming of funds under Section 8005,” said the judge, U.S. District Court Judge Haywood Gilliam.

Breaking: Trump Officially Invalidates All Documents Signed by Biden Autopen, Including Pardons – Fauci, Hunter Biden Now Vulnerable

Watch: The Fieriest Trump Comments in History Just Came Out During Cabinet Meeting – POTUS Utterly Scorched Omar and Somalis, Calling Them ‘Garbage’ from ‘Stinking Country’

Trump doubles down on voiding Biden autopen actions, including pardons and commutations

Top expert exposes how elites are encouraging immigrants to not assimilate into American culture

Witkoff and Kushner leave Kremlin after nearly five hours of negotiation with Putin

Trump hails $6 billion generosity of Dell family, teases more investors for ‘trust fund’ for American children

Portland drops ‘Christmas’ from tree lighting ceremony featuring ‘Free Palestine’ chant

BREAKING: Afghan Shooter Pleads Not Guilty to All Charges in National Guard Murder Case

Chip Roy Floats Congressional Action on College Football After Lane Kiffin Fiasco: ‘Isn’t Supposed to Be an NFL Lite’

Trump-backed Republican touts ‘great turnout for us’ in must-win special election for GOP

Senators vow push to prohibit US military action in Venezuela if Trump pursues strikes against the country

ICE nabs child rapists, gun-toting robbers as assaults on officers rise 1,153%

Venezuela land strikes will start ‘very soon,’ Trump says at final Cabinet meeting of the year

University of Delaware student accused of ‘frightening’ plot to attack campus police

Virginia GOP chairman stepping down after drastic losses in November elections

The administration’s “argument that the need for the requested border barrier construction funding was ‘unforeseen’ cannot logically be squared with the Administration’s multiple requests for funding for exactly that purpose dating back to at least early 2018,” he added.

The lawsuit also suggested that another $1.5 billion may be blocked because, in part, “the Court finds that Plaintiffs have demonstrated a likelihood of irreparable harm to their members’ aesthetic and recreational interests in the areas known as El Paso Sector Project 1 and Yuma Sector Project 1.”

Gilliam was nominated to the bench by former President Barack Obama in 2014.