SCOTUS Blog·40 min ago·Monday, November 9, 2026, 3:37 PM

Supreme Court allows Trump administration to continue border wall construction

The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for the Trump administration to resume construction of a border wall in the Big Bend region of southwestern Texas. In a four-page, unsigned opinion, the justices granted the government’s request to pause an order by a federal district judge that had temporarily halted the project. Only Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson indicated, without explanation, that she would have denied the government’s request.

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