The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday granted a request from the Biden administration to drop two Trump-era immigration cases from this month’s argument calendar because the policies at issue are being rescinded.
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Escaping the heat of an impending impeachment vote, President Trump traveled to South Texas on Tuesday to tout his administration’s immigration policy reforms against the backdrop of the border wall.
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Taking up Stephen Bannon’s defense some four months into the prosecution, a new attorney for the former White House adviser told a federal judge Thursday that he is still playing catch-up with the government on evidence production.
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Crews have been dynamiting remote and rugged mountainsides in the southeast corner of Arizona, reshaping the landscape in an effort to build more border wall before President Trump’s term ends in January. Construction of the border wall, mostly in government owned wildlife refuges and Indigenous territory, has led to environmental damage and the scarring of unique desert and mountain landscapes that conservationists fear could be irreversible.
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The Fifth Circuit ruled Friday evening a federal judge erred in blocking the Trump administration from redirecting $3.6 billion from the military to build a wall at the border with Mexico, a decision that is certain to head to the Supreme Court.
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Most experts agree President-elect Joe Biden will fulfill his campaign promise to stop building Donald Trump’s border wall. But only time will tell how the incoming administration will repair the damage — environmental, cultural and political — the wall’s already done.
Read moreThe La Posta Band of Diegueño Mission Indians was properly denied a preliminary injunction in its case challenging border wall construction in San Diego and Imperial County, California, the Ninth Circuit ruled. The tribe claims ancestral burial grounds will be harmed by the construction but the government says such grounds have not been documented in the area.
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An Italian artist whose roots inspired a border wall art installation near the U.S.-Mexico border made entirely of blocks of a Mexican hard cheese he made and cured himself sued a federal construction contractor Wednesday for destroying his creation.
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Considering a tribe’s claims that a border wall construction site in San Diego contains cultural resources and possibly ancestral burial sites, a Ninth Circuit panel Tuesday appeared unlikely to stop the project.
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The National Butterfly Center in South Texas has brought legal challenges against both the Trump administration and a group raising money for a privately funded border wall.
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The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear the Trump administration’s challenge of orders finding it had unlawfully transferred $2.5 billion in Defense Department funds for border wall construction.
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A divided D.C. Circuit panel ruled Tuesday that border wall construction in South Texas interferes with the rights of butterfly conservation advocates, reinstating a challenge to a stretch of wall along the Rio Grande.
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The Ninth Circuit on Friday ruled that President Donald Trump’s allocation of military funds for construction of his border wall was illegal, upholding a December 2019 ruling from a federal judge.
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The Kumeyaay Nation, 13 federally recognized Indian tribes living in Southern California, urged a federal judge on Friday to force the Trump administration to survey the grounds around an under-construction border wall to prevent the disruption of religious sites, including burial grounds.
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House Democrats scored a victory for checks and balances Friday after the D.C. Circuit revived their challenge to billions of dollars that the Trump administration has diverted to build a border wall.
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We Build the Wall is breaking down on two fronts – in Manhattan, where its founder is facing a federal indictment, and in South Texas, where engineers say the Rio Grande is washing out the foundation of 3 miles of border wall it financed.
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Pleading not guilty Monday at a virtual arraignment, three leaders of the embattled charity We Build the Wall followed the lead of fellow defendant Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist.
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Appearing unclear during a court hearing Thursday about tribal rights to access cultural resources on private land, a federal judge found the federal government should not be forced to stop construction on the border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border in California despite claims human remains were bulldozed over.
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A $25 million campaign to crowdfund a wall on the U.S. southern border fell apart Thursday with the arrest this morning of former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon on a Chinese billionaire’s yacht.
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With President Donald Trump eager to fulfill his campaign promise to build 450 miles of border wall by the end of 2020, his administration has filed 63 eminent domain lawsuits against South Texas landowners this year. One problem: Such cases can take years to resolve.
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