Federal judge adds four new sites to the ban on border wall construction, dealing a blow to the Trump administration
A federal judge late Friday permanently blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with border wall construction plans at the center of a contentious lawsuit and added four new wall construction sites to the ban.
Dror Ladin, staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, who argued one of the lawsuits on behalf of the Sierra Club, said in a statement that"Congress was clear in denying funds for Trump's xenophobic obsession with a wasteful, harmful wall." In conjunction with Friday's ruling, Gilliam also handed down a similar order in a separate lawsuit filed by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on behalf of a multi-state coalition seeking to prevent border wall construction. The sites enjoined from construction late Friday in the California case were also at issue in the Sierra Club lawsuit.
"Absent such authority, [the government's] position on these factors boils down to an argument that the Court should not enjoin conduct found to be unlawful because the ends justify the means," the judge concluded."No case supports this principle."
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