The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump Administration to resume construction on the Big Bend Border wall in Texas.
Last month, a federal judge blocked border wall construction in the Big Bend region in Texas.
US District Judge Kathleen Cardone, a George W. Bush appointee, previously issued a preliminary injunction blocking border wall construction in Texas’s Big Bend region and Big Bend National Park.
The scope of Judge Cardone’s order included patrol roads, border barriers, or related infrastructure.
Environmental advocacy group Center for Biological Diversity filed the lawsuit in April and argued that the border wall construction lacked approval from Congress.
Judge Cardone sided with the plaintiffs on Friday and stopped the bulldozing and road-clearing by contractors while the lawsuit makes its way through the courts.
On Monday, in an 8-1 decision, the Supreme Court sided with President Trump.
CBS News reported:
The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for the Trump administration to resume building a border wall and other infrastructure through a remote area of West Texas while litigation over the project moves forward.
In an unsigned decision, the high court agreed to lift a district court’s injunction that temporarily stopped construction of the wall and related infrastructure in the Big Bend sector, which covers more than 500 miles of the southern border and includes Big Bend National Park.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said she would have denied the Justice Department’s request for emergency relief.
In its five-page decision, the Supreme Court said in part that the lower court’s order delays construction of the border barrier and roads in the Big Bend region and “impedes the Government from advancing its ‘compelling interests’ in border security and integrity.”
The challengers to the wall project “claim that construction in the Big Bend Sector will diminish their ability to use and enjoy the area,” the court said. “But Congress’s enactment of [immigration law] — which permits the Secretary to waive the requirements of environmental-protection and other conservation laws — reflects a clear preference for expeditious border construction over the very harms respondents assert.”
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