Supreme Court Clears Trump to Build 100 Miles of Border Fencing
- Court votes 5-4 to let construction start using disputed funds
- Order lets Pentagon divert $2.5 billion to replace barriers
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A divided U.S. Supreme Court cleared President Donald Trump’s administration to start using disputed Pentagon funds to construct more than 100 miles of fencing along the Mexican border, letting him take his biggest step yet toward erecting his long-promised wall.
The justices Friday lifted a lower court freeze that was designed to block the $2.5 billion in spending while a lawsuit by the Sierra Club and another advocacy group went forward. The four liberal justices said they would have kept construction on hold.