Oct. 2<\/a>. <\/p>\nIn court documents filed Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone argued, “the core of Plaintiffs\u2019 major questions doctrine claim is that the people\u2019s representatives \u2014 Congress \u2014 did not, in fact, authorize Defendants\u2019 border wall infrastructure construction activities in the Big Bend Sector.”<\/p>\n
According to court documents, Solicitor General D. John Sauer described Judge Cardone’s decision \u201cbaseless,\u201d and urged the Court to intervene and let the project continue.<\/p>\n
The issue stems from two projects by the Department of Homeland Security. If U.S. Customs and Border Protection approves them, the projects would lead to 89 miles of new border wall infrastructure near Big Bend. <\/p>\n
The Center for Biological Diversity and the Texas Civil Rights Project filed a lawsuit against the DHS on Sept. 7 over the project. <\/p>\n
In a statement provided to ABC-7, The Center for Biological Diversity responded to the Trump Adminstration’s decision with the following statement:<\/p>\n
“We\u2019re deeply disappointed that the Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court for a green light to bulldoze one of America\u2019s wildest, most extraordinary landscapes,\u201d said Zeynep Graves, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. \u201cOnce Big Bend’s canyons, cultural treasures and wild ecosystems are destroyed, they\u2019ll be lost forever. We\u2019re confident the law is on our side and that only\u00a0Congress can authorize something as consequential as walling off the entire U.S.-Mexico border. We won\u2019t stop fighting for Big Bend until it\u2019s\u00a0protected forever.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a social media post Wednesday evening, the General Counsel for the Department of Homeland Security released the following statement in support of the decision by the Trump Administration:<\/p>\n
The President received a mandate from the American people to build a wall, defeat the cartels, and stop the flow of illegal aliens and dangerous drugs like fentanyl into our country. The Secretary\u2019s authority to build that wall is clear as day, as reflected in DHS\u2019s consistent court victories in similar cases. The court\u2019s order is as unprecedented as it is flawed, and we look forward to the Supreme Court\u2019s expeditious consideration of this important question.
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