Chinanews, August 1, according to foreign media reports, on July 31, local time, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the request of two non-governmental organizations that tried to prevent the Trump administration from spending more Pentagon money. Build a separation wall on the US-Mexico border.
On February 22, 2018, local time, near Calexico, California, the United States Customs and Border Protection replaced a section of the local border wall.
According to reports, the Supreme Court rejected the request of two organizations, the Sierra Club and the Southern Border Communities Coalition, to stop building the border wall with 5 votes from conservative judges to 4 liberal judges.
Earlier, a lower court ruled that the Trump administration improperly transferred funds to the construction of the US-Mexico border wall.
In June of this year, the Federal Court of Appeals ruled that the Trump administration illegally bypassed Congress on the issue of transferring funds from the Department of Defense. The four liberal justices of the Supreme Court also stated that they will prohibit construction projects while the court continues to hear the case.
According to reports, the case before the Supreme Court involved US$2.5 billion in funding from the Department of Defense to build the wall. The American Civil Liberties Union, which is prosecuting the Trump administration on behalf of the Sierra Club and the Southern Frontier Community League, said it would seek to demolish part of the wall built with the money.
In the summer of 2019, in the early stages of the case, the Supreme Court judges also voted five to four, agreeing to allow the government to use $2.5 billion from the Ministry of Defense to start building the wall. However, NGOs believe that the situation has changed and should not be allocated funds now.
However, the July 31 decision means that the Supreme Court is unlikely to consider this issue before the end of the November election, and the construction of the wall is still continuing.