Trump appointed judge rules against Congress in wall suit

Slate -A federal judge ruled  that House Democrats cannot sue President Trump over the White House’s use of funds appropriated to the Pentagon to pay for a wall on the Mexican border. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump nominee, did not rule on the merits of the case, instead denying House Democrats’ motion to stay Trump’s wall funding because they lacked standing to sue the Executive Branch. “While the Constitution bestows upon Members of the House many powers, it does not grant them standing to hale the Executive Branch into court claiming a dilution of Congress’s legislative authority,” McFadden wrote. “The Court therefore lacks jurisdiction to hear the House’s claims and will deny its motion.”