Supreme Court Clears Trump to Build 100 Miles of Border Fencing

The U.S. Supreme Court cleared President Donald Trump’s administration to start using disputed 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.

With four justices at least partially dissenting, the justices lifted a lower court freeze that was designed to block the spending while a lawsuit by the Sierra Club and another advocacy group went forward.

The Supreme Court’s order marks the first time it’s acted in the dispute over the national-emergency declaration Trump issued in February in a bid to free up federal ...