The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can resume building a border wall through the Big Bend region of West Texas.
\n\nThe justices voted 8-1 on Monday to lift a federal judge’s order that had stopped construction across the sector for more than a month. The unsigned five-page decision said a 1996 immigration law gives the Homeland Security secretary wide room to waive environmental rules and that Congress wrote it to favor fast construction over the harm the challengers described.
\n\nJustice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only one who said she would have turned the administration down. She did not explain why.
\n\nCrews can now return to work across the roughly 500-mile project area, where the government has planned more than 300 miles of barriers, patrol roads, and surveillance equipment, including inside Big Bend National Park. The administration has said it will not build a large wall within the park itself.
\n\nThe fight started in February, when then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem signed the first of three waivers covering the Big Bend sector. Her successor, Markwayne Mullin, signed the other two. The Center for Biological Diversity sued to stop the work, joined by a nonprofit that preserves a historic…
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