Judge Kathleen Cardone previously blocked the Big Bend border wall project, and Texas’ Land Commissioner has spoken out against it as well.
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Oct. 21 to allow it to construct a border wall through Texas’ Big Bend region, slicing through Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park. Federal Judge Kathleen Cardone previously blocked the project, and Texas’ Land Commissioner has spoken out against it as well.
Solicitor General D. John Sauer issued the emergency application to the justices. Sauer “called the lower court decision ‘baseless,’ and asserted that halting the section of the wall at issue would leave ‘a 300-plus-mile gap in border defenses’ and ‘act as a dangerous magnet for cartels and other bad actors to exploit,’” Abbie VanSickle writes for the New York Times.
Before filing the emergency application, lawyers for the Trump administration asked Judge Cardone to pause her ruling. Her refusal prompted the administration to escalate the case to the Supreme Court.
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