Supreme Court Lifts Order Blocking Trump's Big Bend Border Wall
The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can resume building a border wall through the Big Bend region of West Texas.
The justices voted 8-1 on Monday to lift a federal judge’s order that had stopped construction across the sector for more than a month. The unsigned five-page decision said a 1996 immigration law gives the Homeland Security secretary wide room to waive environmental rules and that Congress wrote it to favor fast construction over the harm the challengers described...
Crews can now return to work across the roughly 500-mile project area, where the government has planned more than 300 miles of barriers, patrol roads, and surveillance equipment, including inside Big Bend National Park. The administration has said it will not build a large wall within the park itself...