President Donald Trump was within his constitutional authority to declare a national emergency at the southern border last year, a federal judge ruled Thursday, but environmental groups can move forward on a central challenge in their lawsuit: whether the president can divert $3.6 billion in military funds to build a border wall.
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Attorneys for the Sierra Club, a consortium of states and the U.S. House of Representatives argued President Donald Trump and his administration overstepped their constitutional authority in using Pentagon funds to build a border wall during a hearing at the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco on Tuesday.
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A coalition of states led by California sued the Trump administration Tuesday, accusing the White House of another illegal overreach by diverting $3.8 billion more from the military to fund the southern border wall.
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A federal judge in Seattle on Thursday permanently blocked the Trump administration from diverting $89 million in congressionally approved military construction funding to help build a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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For five generations, Nayda Alvarez’s family has owned the land where she has made a home in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas. It’s nearly time for Alvarez, a teacher of 22 years, to retire there, but a battle for eminent domain being waged against her by the federal government has made that future uncertain.
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The Trump administration said Tuesday it is waiving federal contracting laws to speed up construction of a wall at the Mexican border, moving the president closer to fulfilling a campaign promise in an election year but sparking criticism about fraud, waste and abuse.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit gave the Trump administration a cool reception Tuesday as it attempts to quash a lawsuit by Congress in the funding fight over the president’s long-promised border wall.
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The American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday declared it would fight in court to stop the Trump Administration’s potential diversion of an additional $3.8 billion in military funds toward a wall along the US-Mexico border.
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The state of Washington tried to convince a federal judge Thursday that the Trump administration’s plan to divert Pentagon funds for border wall construction is illegal and should be immediately stopped.
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The Department of Homeland Security has requested the Pentagon fund hundreds of miles of new and renovated barriers along the southern border this year to stop the flow of drugs.
Read moreThree miles of border wall will soon go up on private land on the banks of the Rio Grande after a federal judge on Thursday lifted an injunction, allowing a construction firm to move forward with the project.
Read moreThe Fifth Circuit on Wednesday lifted a lower court’s order that blocked the Trump administration from using $3.6 billion in military construction money for a wall on the Mexican border.
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The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a $1.4 trillion spending package, putting Congress on track to fund the federal government for the rest of the fiscal year ahead of an end-of-week deadline.
Read moreThe Defense Department’s internal watchdog is investigating a $400 million border wall contract awarded to a firm that used multiple appearances on Fox News to push for the job, and whom President Trump touted to the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security.
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The Department of Defense cannot use military construction funds to build a wall along the southern border wall as part of a declared national immigration emergency, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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A federal judge on Tuesday issued a nationwide injunction blocking the Trump administration’s plan to use $3.6 billion in military construction money to build the president’s long-promised border wall.
Read moreA federal judge granted the United States an injunction against We Build The Wall and three construction companies, after they blew off a previous injunction prohibiting them from privately building a wall on the Mexican border.
Read moreIn an auspicious hearing for a butterfly sanctuary standing in the way of the planned wall on the southern border, the D.C. Circuit pressed the government Thursday on evidence that Border Patrol agents had cut locks on the property.
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The director of a 100-acre butterfly refuge on the Rio Grande asked the Army Corps of Engineers on Wednesday to shut down a conservative group’s border wall construction project on private land in South Texas, a day after a state judge ordered the project be immediately stopped.
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