Trump administration asks for Supreme Court intervention over border wall construction

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to intervene and lift an injunction imposed by a lower federal court that blocks the administration from using $2.5 billion in military funds to construct the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

The filing has gone to Justice Elena Kagan, who will likely ask environmental groups who brought the original lawsuit to respond with a brief of its own in coming days.

Kagan will also likely ask all her colleagues to weigh in, but it’s unclear when an order will be issued.

Earlier this month, a divided three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco agreed with a lower court ruling that prevented the government from tapping Defense Department counterdrug money to build high-priority sections of wall in Arizona, California and New Mexico.

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