Judge Says Biden Administration Violated Environmental Laws

We owe this latest decision against Joe Biden to an Arizona rancher.

Steven Smith was part of a group that sued the administration on the premise that the halting of the border wall construction was an environmental infraction.

According to the suit, Biden failed to conduct a mandatory review required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) before halting border wall construction.

Well, How About That

So, before I get into the meat of this, I have to wonder why the House of Representatives did not come up with this immediately after Biden halted wall construction.

After all, these are people who are paid to know the laws inside and out, yet a private rancher is the one who realized Biden violated federal law.

While you chew on that, the lawsuit, Massachusetts Coalition for Immigration Reform et al. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security, challenged the administration on that premise and won.

The decision was handed down by Judge Trevor McFadden of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

On Friday, Judge McFadden ruled that the rancher, Mr. Smith, "suffered concrete and particularized injuries” due to this review not being done.

Smith argued that migrant activity on his ranch has dramatically increased due to the construction project being halted.

Smith stated that he finds trash all over his property numerous times a month, negatively impacting the environment. This has also impacted his herd, which has taken to eating the trash left behind by the migrants.

He also testified that the migrants were taking water from his troughs that were meant for his cattle, stating, "While this may aid thirsty trespassers, it causes Smith to lose ‘thousands and thousands of gallons of water,’ which 'can take [him] days and days and days to regain."

Thank God for Mr. Smith. He has done more to hurt Biden in that lawsuit than Congress has done in four years.

Well done, sir.