Supreme Court Sends Legal Challenge to Border Wall Back to Lower Courts

Supreme Court Sends Legal Challenge to Border Wall Back to Lower Courts
A Customs and Border Control agent patrolling on the U.S. side of a razor-wire-covered border wall along the Mexico east of Nogales, Ariz., on March 2, 2019. Charlie Riedel/AP Photo
Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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The Supreme Court has vacated a lower court ruling prohibiting the federal government from diverting funds from the military to construct the U.S.–Mexico border wall, sending the case back to the lower court for review.

During his administration, then-President Donald Trump had sought to transfer money from the Department of Defense toward the construction of a U.S.–Mexico border wall after Congress rejected his request for more funding. But President Joe Biden canceled the Trump-era emergency declaration when he took office and returned the unspent funds to the Pentagon.

Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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