Trump asks Supreme Court to lift block on Big Bend border wall construction
The Trump administration filed an emergency petition to the Supreme Court on Wednesday asking the justices to lift a lower court’s injunction halting border wall construction in Texas’s Big Bend region.
TL;DR
- Trump administration filed an emergency petition to the Supreme Court.
- The petition asks to lift a lower court's injunction halting border wall construction in Texas's Big Bend region.
- Solicitor General D. John Sauer called the injunction "baseless."
- U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone blocked three waivers allowing border wall construction.
- Environmental activists sued to halt construction in the region.