Trump DOJ tells environmental groups suing over Alligator Alcatraz'construction to take in the flora and fauna elsewhere

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Source: msn/Law & Crime

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The Trump administration responded in federal court on Thursday after two environmental nonprofit groups sued to block the construction of a temporary detention center at an airstrip in the Big Cypress National Preserve in the Everglades, a facility President Donald Trump, his Florida allies, and the DOJ itself have called "Alligator Alcatraz."

In a court filing, lawyers from the DOJ's Natural Resources Section said that there are multiple reasons that plaintiffs Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity cannot succeed in obtaining the preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order they seek at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida: DHS isn't funding the construction of the detention center, Florida is; there has been no "final agency action" on the part of DHS; and the suit is based on "too speculative and conclusory" a theory of "irreparable harm" to the environment and on those who wish to take in the wildlife.

The case was brought on an expedited basis last Friday against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, acting ICE Director Toddy Lyons, Miami-Dade County and Kevin Guthrie, the executive director of Florida's Division of Emergency Management.

In it, the plaintiffs argued that the National Environmental Policy Act demands that federal agencies, such as DHS or ICE, undertaking a "major federal action" must put together an "Environmental Impact Statement" on the effects of the project on the environment. The absence of such an assessment and moving forward with construction "without public notice or comment," the complaint continued, "constitutes final agency action" that is "subject to judicial review" under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA).

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/too-speculative-trump-doj-tells-environmental-groups-suing-over-alligator-alcatraz-theres-no-irreparable-harm-to-their-wildlife-enjoyment/ar-AA1HVsYp

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Full headline: 'Too speculative and conclusory': Trump DOJ tells environmental groups suing over 'Alligator Alcatraz' construction to take in the 'flora and fauna' elsewhere

Link to FILING (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.692544/gov.uscourts.flsd.692544.21.0.pdf

[CanonRay]

1. Who are the DOJ lawyers filing this shit?

We need to name them and shame them. Picket their cushy houses and file Bar complaints. Asymetrical warfare people.

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2. Federal government lawyers probably make a fraction of what private lawyers would make

Entry level out of law school is usually a GS-11 (this is DOJ's but probably is generally used at other agencies - https://www.justice.gov/legal-careers/salary-promotion-benefits) and probably max out at a GS-14 (with possible higher salaries if in management).

[CanonRay]

3. I'm not interested in their salaries, they are being complicit good little Nazis

and they should pay a steep price.

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4. Most are regular civil service employees

but I think early on in this administration, a pile of the existing ones were either put on administrative leave, fired, resigned, or retired (or are about to retire).

During "normal" times, they were the "law firm" for federal agencies like the one I worked for for over 30 years, and filed the injunctions, temporary restraining orders, searches/seizures, and in some cases, criminal prosecutions of shady business owners. Most agencies are NOT "enforcement" ones but are "regulatory" ones and needed DOJ lawyers to operate in court.

It's unfortunate that you have scum like Bondi misusing these folks.