The US supreme court has allowed Donald Trump to continue his administration’s construction of a border wall in Texas’s Big Bend region, including parts of Big Bend national park.
In an unsigned, five-page ruling, the nation’s highest court granted the Trump administration’s emergency request to suspend a lower court order that had temporarily stopped the project last month.
Liberal justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only member of the nine-member court to dissent from the ruling.
The justices wrote that the case’s plaintiffs, which include the Center for Biological Diversity, a Big Bend river guide and a church preservation group, “claim that construction
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