The Trump administration wants the U.S. Supreme Court to review a ruling that the U.S.-Mexico border wall construction projects aren’t sufficiently related to military construction projects to divert funding from those sources, according to a petition for certiorari.
Environmental groups, with support from multiple states, sued after federal officials announced they were diverting $3.6 billion from military construction projects to fund 11 border wall projects in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. The projects were allegedly authorized by the Secretary of Defense.
The government argued in the Tuesday petition that the projects qualified as “other activity” under military jurisdiction, but ...
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