BORDER/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump scored a major victory at the Supreme Court on Friday [7-26-19], as the justices lifted a lower court order blocking a key part of his plan to expand the border wall with Mexico. The Justice Department had asked the justices to stay a pair of rulings an Oakland-based federal judge issued in May and June blocking Trump’s plan to use about $2.5 billion in unspent military funds for wall projects in California, Arizona and New Mexico. All the Republican-appointed justices voted in favor of allowing Trump to proceed with that aspect of his plan while litigation over the issue continues. All the Democratic-appointed justices dissented, except for Justice Stephen Breyer who said he would have allowed the contracting process to move forward but blocked actual construction…However, the ruling may not signal that all challenges to the border wall funding in dispute are certain to fail.”
–Josh Gerstein, “Supreme Court gives Trump go-ahead on border wall,” Politico, July 26, 2019 12:46 pm