SCOTUS lets Trump move forward with key section of border wall construction

President Donald Trump notched a win at the Supreme Court on Monday, with the justices permitting his administration to move forward with constructing a portion of border wall at a critical position along the Mexican frontier.A lower court had blocked construction of the wall, which runs through Big Bend National Park, while a lawsuit proceeded. But the justices granted the administration’s request to lift the stay on Monday, Reuters reported.
Trump campaigned in 2016 on building a wall along the Mexican border and making Mexico pay for it. While that campaign promise has largely disappeared from the headlines, construction of the border wall has persisted.
The Big Bend portion of the wall would partially fill in one of the largest remaining gaps along the Texas portion of the border. While nearly the entire stretch of the southern border from Tijuana to El Paso features at least some form of barrier, it includes several gaps and the Texas portion is far more porous, according to USA Today’s interactive border wall map.
Ben Whedon is the Chief Political Correspondent at Just the News. Follow him on X.

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