The Ninth Circuit on Thursday did not indicate whether it would freeze a court-ordered block on $1 billion in funding the Trump administration allegedly misappropriated to build a wall on the U.S.- Mexico border, torpedoing arguments from both sides of the aisle.
Read moreThe Democrat-controlled House of Representatives filed an appeal Monday night to the D.C. Circuit challenging a federal judge’s denial of its request to freeze funds tapped for the construction of a wall at the southern border.
Read moreDeclining to take sides in what he described as a “political turf war” between the White House and Democrat-controlled House of Representatives, a federal judge denied a House request Monday to freeze funds taken for construction of a wall at the southern border.
Read moreOn a muggy, mosquito-filled evening near the U.S.-Mexico border, the threat of President Donald Trump’s border wall brought together a large group of family members at two historic cemeteries that are part of their ancestral land.
Read moreA federal judge Friday has partially blocked the Trump administration from building parts of a wall along the southern border and blocks the transfer of nearly $1 billion in funds from the Defense Department to pay for it.
Read moreUrging a federal judge to freeze funds earmarked for a wall at the Southern border, a lawyer for the House of Representatives argued Thursday that the president’s reallocation of money in the defense budget violated congressional authority.
Read moreA federal judge indicated Friday he would likely block the Trump administration from diverting $1.6 billion in federal funds to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, three months after President Donald Trump declared a national emergency to access billions in funds denied by Congress.
Read morePresident Trump is moving fast to spend billions of dollars to build a wall on the Mexican border with money secured under his declaration of a national emergency, but first he must get past the courts.
Read moreThe U.S. government plans on replacing barriers through 100 miles (161 kilometers) of the southern border in California and Arizona, including through a national monument and a wildlife refuge, according to documents and environmental advocates.
Read moreActing Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan visited a border city in Texas on Saturday and said he intends to accelerate planning to secure the border and bolster the administration’s ability to accomplish that without the Pentagon’s continuous help.
Read moreThe Trump administration urged a federal judge on Wednesday to reject the House of Representatives’ request to block the administration from using money from President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration to build a wall along the southern border.
Read moreThe Trump administration on Wednesday asked Congress for an additional $4.5 billion in emergency funds for the U.S.-Mexico border as the administration contends with a surge of Central American migrant families, with the bulk of the money for shelter and care.
Read moreSaying construction is imminent, the House of Representatives on Tuesday asked a federal judge to block the federal government from using money from President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration to build a wall along the southern border.
Read moreThe U.S. House of Representatives asked a federal judge Friday for leave to file an amicus brief in California’s lawsuit over President Donald Trump’s declared emergency on the U.S.-Mexico border, saying the order violates the Appropriations Clause and separation of powers doctrine.
Read morePresident Donald Trump held a roundtable discussion Friday ahead of his tour of a newly fortified 30-foot, 2.5-mile section of the U.S.-Mexico border fence in Calexico, California, capping off a week of pushback by California’s elected leaders against the president’s immigration policies.
Read moreCalling the action an unprecedented power grab, the House of Representatives on Friday filed a federal lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s decision to declare a national emergency and shift money towards the construction of his long-promised wall along the southern border.
Read moreCalling President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency on the U.S.-Mexico border a “threat to our democratic institutions,” a coalition of 20 states asked a federal judge on Friday to block the action as unconstitutional.
Read moreAbandoning his threat to seal the southern border immediately, President Trump warned instead on Thursday that he’d slap tariffs on cars coming to the U.S. from Mexico unless the Mexicans do more to stop the flow of migrants and drugs to the U.S.
Read moreThe American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday asked a judge in California to block the Trump administration from building a border wall using funds obtained through his national emergency declaration.
Read moreA House panel has authorized a lawsuit over President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the southern border, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said Thursday.
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