SCOTUS Rules Trump Can Continue Building Big Beautiful Wall

It’s always a struggle with the pro-illegals crowd, constantly suing over things that are in law

Supreme Court Lifts Order Blocking Trump’s Big Bend Border Wall

The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can resume building a border wall through the Big Bend region of West Texas.

The justices voted 8-1 on Monday to lift a federal judge’s order that had stopped construction across the sector for more than a month. The unsigned five-page decision said a 1996 immigration law gives the Homeland Security secretary wide room to waive environmental rules and that Congress wrote it to favor fast construction over the harm the challengers described.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only one who said she would have turned the administration down. She did not explain why.

Crews can now return to work across the roughly 500-mile project area, where the government has planned more than 300 miles of barriers, patrol roads, and surveillance equipment, including inside Big Bend National Park. The administration has said it will not build a large wall within the park itself.

It’s pretty concrete when even 2 of the liberal Justices vote in favor of building the wall. It’s unsurprising that Brown Jackson voted against. She actually didn’t have a lot of dumb things to say, not even discussing her opposition

Opposition grew in August after bulldozers were spotted clearing desert inside the national park, and U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone shut everything down on October 2.

The administration went to the Supreme Court last month and said Cardone had no authority to second-guess the waivers. Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote that an unwalled gap in the Big Bend would pull cartels and other bad actors into the opening once barriers went up everywhere else. Mullin had designated the sector an area of high illegal entry, pointing to roughly 89,000 apprehensions and large drug seizures there across fiscal years 2021 through 2025.

Cardone found that Congress likely never authorized waivers that sweeping in the sector that records the fewest crossings anywhere on the southern border.

8-1 said she is full of mule fritters.

(Texas Tribune) “The Government’s interest therefore outweighs any aesthetic, recreational, and environmental harm alleged by respondents,” the ruling says.

Bam.

“This horrific decision clears the way for contractors to bulldoze pristine desert and dynamite canyon walls before the courts have even decided whether this destruction is legal,” said Laiken Jordahl, national public lands advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity. “They’re signing off on the permanent destruction of the wildest place in Texas, and the theft of a great American river from all of us.”

Here’s an idea: Democrats need to stop advocating for illegals. Let them be deported quickly and you’ll cut the numbers down drastically. Stop giving them all those benefits, work permits, etc, and they will leave, and most will not come. Authorize huge numbers of people and electronic monitoring and more on the border to stop the crossers and the cartels and such and won’t need the wall in most spots.

And, to be clear, Big Bend National Park is in the freaking middle of nowhere. Most of these “advocates” do not go there.