SCOTUS allows Trump admin to temporarily resume border construction in Texas' Big Bend

The U. S. Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for the Trump administration to resume border wall construction in West Texas, granting an emergency request from the federal government to lift a lower court's hold on the project.

The U. S. Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for the Trump administration to resume border wall construction in West Texas, granting an emergency request from the federal government to lift a lower court's hold on the project.

The justices' ruling stays a preliminary injunction issued last month by a federal district judge in El Paso, who had temporarily halted border wall construction in the region designated by U. S. Customs and Border Protection as the Big Bend Sector while litigation proceeds.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson indicated she would have denied the stay request but did not file a written dissent.

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