Furloughed Texas lawyer says they're only allowed to work on border wall cases - Polidicks

https://www.businessinsider.com/ap-us-presses-ahead-with-border-wall-in-court-despite-shutdown-2019-1?utm_source=reddit.com HOUSTON (AP) — A federal attorney in South Texas said in court this week that during the ongoing partial government shutdown, he only has been allowed to work on cases related to President Donald Trump's proposed border wall. The Texas Civil Rights Project on Thursday released a transcript of a Tuesday hearing in a case where the U.S. government has sued a local landowner for her property along the U.S.- Mexico border. Many other civil cases have been delayed during the shutdown, which was triggered by Trump's demand for $5.7 billion to build a wall. According to the transcript, U.S. District Judge Micaela Alvarez noted that government attorneys working on border wall cases have not been furloughed despite the shutdown. The prosecutor, Eric Paxton Warner, responded, "This is all I'm allowed to work on, Your Honor." U.S. Customs and Border Protection said last year that it planned to start building in February. But unlike on other parts of the border, most border land in South Texas is owned privately. That requires the government to seize it through eminent domain, suing private landowners in cases that can take months or years. Some landowners who would be affected have already vowed to fight the government in court. The case that led to Tuesday's hearing was opened 11 years ago, during the last major effort to build border barriers under the Secure Fence Act. It involves a chunk of land in Los Ebanos, a town of roughly 300 people situated along a bend in the Rio Grande, the river separating the U.S. and Mexico in Texas.

How the fuck is this legal

its not but the GAO is also furlowed and any rebuke would probably be toothless and require a lengthy investigation.

Also amid the shutdown: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/17/doj-property-seizures-border-wall-1093736?fbclid=IwAR3qVqGIr8vu30hvR-VVAchV7FlMJWAjnSferohnAMYHnwvhJJwB5gIRuYA Also I guess the lawyer saying that isn't furloughed

They should build a section of wall and then hang Trump from it.

it's not! but theres no federal government to stop it

I hope one of those landowners builds a killdozer and drives over as much wall as possible.

How is this legal? I doubt a lawyer fighting for the wall is one of the protected jobs.

I'm not gonna lie, the thought of Trump supporters being kicked off their land to "fulfill" trumps campaign promise, minus the actual promise of having mexico pay for it, brings a smile to my face.

Honestly, i wonder if theres some rich as fuck person who could buy out a big portion of the land the wall needs (big enough so they cant go around) and do something to the land making it hard as fuck or super expensive to build a wall on. Move a ton of boulders? I wonder what the best method would be

Not technically, but by not being allowed to work on any cases but ones specifically designed to help Trump it certainly seems like a typical childish half measure as the admins known for

Reminder that one of the first things Trump did was institute a federal hiring freeze. Except lawyers. He's needed to hire (and fire) lots of lawyers.

Funny you should say that