The Senate came up short Thursday in a vote to override President Donald Trump’s veto of a resolution that initially passed with Republican support to end an emergency declaration to fund the border wall.
Read moreA federal judge in Texas ruled Friday that President Donald Trump’s use of a national emergency declaration to speed up construction of his long-promised border wall is unlawful.
Read moreA federal court in Washington D.C. ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers did not withhold any non-exempt records from the Center for Biological Diversity, which requested documents that were given to President Donald Trump’s transition team and relate to his campaign promise to construct a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Read moreThe House of Representatives on Friday again voted to terminate the national emergency President Donald Trump declared in February to fund his long-promised border wall.
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The U.S. Senate voted 54-41 Wednesday to end President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency and stop the diversion of military funds to pay for a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, setting up another veto showdown.
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In an effort to avoid a looming government shutdown, the House of Representatives on Thursday approved a short-term spending bill that would fund the government into November as lawmakers continue to negotiate over a longer agreement.
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On a dirt road past rows of date trees, just feet from the dry bed of Colorado River, a small construction crew is putting up a towering border wall that the government hopes will reduce — for good — the flow of immigrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border without documents.
Read moreSenate Democrats will force a vote to terminate the national emergency President Donald Trump declared in February that allowed him to move money from other federal accounts into the fund for his long-promised border wall, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday.
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The Trump administration plans to divert $3.6 billion away from military construction projects toward the president’s long-promised border wall.
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Lawyers for the Trump administration told a federal judge in Texas Thursday that the nation’s lawmakers, not its courts, should determine whether or not the president’s declaration of an emergency at the southern border constitutes an abuse of power, as critics have alleged in multiple lawsuits playing out across the country.
Read moreWhen Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada became a Nogales, Arizona, police patrolman in 1966, about 80% of the people in the county jail on any given day were Mexican.
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Three environmental groups asked a federal court Tuesday to immediately block Trump administration waivers of environmental and other laws that ease the path for border wall construction on federally protected land in Arizona.
Read moreThe Supreme Court lifted a lower court decision Friday that blocked President Donald Trump from using $2.5 billion from military accounts to build a portion of his long-promised wall along the southern border.
Read moreIn a 2-1 decision on Wednesday, the Ninth Circuit rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to suspend a federal judge’s order blocking the use of $2.5 billion in military funding to build part of a southern border wall.
Read moreA federal judge in California ruled Friday against the Trump administration in two different lawsuits over the use of $2.5 billion in military funding to build part of a southern border wall.
Read moreThe 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.
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