Environmentalists asked the Supreme Court to stop the Trump administration from building parts of the U.S.-Mexico border wall after a federal appeals court determined in June that tapping $2.5 billion in military funding for the project was unlawful.
The motion, part of complex litigation, filed with the high court July 22 in Trump v. Sierra Club, asks to lift a stay imposed by the court on July 26, 2019. That order froze a permanent injunction granted by the trial court against the use of the funds until the government’s appeal of that ruling in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit was dealt with.
