October 13, 2019
Five important court cases were decided last Friday: Three on immigration, one on border wall funding, and one on Congressional oversight.
All five federal court decisions went against Donald Trump.
Three federal courts on either coast ruled that a new interpretation of the "public charge" exception to granting immigrants green cards was overly broad. In one case, US District Judge George B. Daniels of the Southern District of New York (SDNY) called the new Trump rule "repugnant to the American Dream." Trump had tried to winnow down half a million annual green card applicants nearly one third by saying people on welfare, Medicaid, Supplemental Social Security Income (SSI), or Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP fka food stamps) would likely be or become public charges, who by federal statute are ineligible for green cards.
For now, at least, Trump's attempt to limit legal immigration by fiat has faIled.
A federal court in the Western District.of Texas ruled that Trump's emergency declaration justifying his diversion of certain military funds to build his wall along the Mexican border is "unlawful."
So I guess funding to build the wall is back on our neighbor to the South, Mexico, as originally promised by unlikely candidate Trump.
Finally, a three-judge panel of the federal Court of Appeals in DC ruled 2-1 that a congressional oversight subpoena for certain accounting papers--including eight years of tax returns--from Trump's accountants at Mazars USA was reasonable, valid, and enforceable.
Score, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D, Maryland), Chairman, Committee on Oversight and Reform and USA citizens whom Trump supposedly serves!
We may yet learn to which autocrats grifter Trump is beholden and the extent of his debts to and gifts from domestic and foreign nationals.
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