Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Trump’s Plan To Use $3.6 Billion for Border Wall
Martin Walsh
October 12, 2021
The Biden administration was handed another policy defeat by the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday after justices remanded a case back to a lower court regarding a resumption of funding for the border wall.
The administration has been working to block additional funding for sections of wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, but the high court ruled that a U.S. district court in California, where a judge had previously ruled against Donald Trump’s attempt to utilize unassigned Pentagon funds for wall construction, must “consider what further proceedings are necessary and appropriate in light of the changed circumstances in this case.”
“The Supreme Court returned the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ‘with instructions to direct the District Court to vacate its judgments,’ the Supreme Court wrote in its Monday order,” Newsweek reported.
A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel let the ruling of a lower court stand, writing, “The panel affirmed the district court’s judgment holding that budgetary transfers of funds for the construction of a wall on the southern border of the United States in California and New Mexico were not authorized under the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2019.”
The appeals court also based its ruling on environmental claims made by California and New Mexico in the June 2020 affirmation of the lower court
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