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The U.S. Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to begin
building the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border using emergency funds, lifting an
injunction Friday that had been imposed by a district court in California and
upheld by the Ninth Circuit.

After Congress refused to appropriate enough funding to build a barrier along
the border earlier this year, President Trump declared a national emergency to
allow the administration to access more money. In total, he ordered $8 billion
spent — though, only $3.6 billion needed an emergency declaration.


The president was exultant on Twitter:

Wow! Big VICTORY on the Wall. The United States Supreme Court overturns
lower court injunction, allows Southern Border Wall to proceed. Big WIN for
Border Security and the Rule of Law!



The decision was largely along partisan lines, with all five Republican-
appointed justices voting to lift the injunction, while all three liberal justices
were opposed. Justice Stephen Breyer sought to have it both ways, allowing
the process to go forward but not the construction: “There is a
straightforward way to avoid harm to both the Government and respondents
while allowing the litigation to proceed. Allowing the Government to finalize
the contracts at issue, but not to begin construction, would al- leviate the
most pressing harm claimed by the Government without risking irreparable
harm to respondents.”


https://www.aljazeera.com/news/ameri...055453344.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49135255
https://www.breitbart.com/border/201...ts-injunction/