2026-11-09 · NPR
The court wrote that federal law allows the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to waive environmental protections and conservation laws, which they called a "clear preference for expeditious border construction over the very harms respondents assert."
In an emergency application to the high court in late October, the federal government urged the justices to intervene and allow the work to begin again, saying that a gap in "border defenses" in the Big Bend region "would act as "a dangerous magnet for cartels and other bad actors." assertive
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