The U.S. Supreme Court has rebuffed a challenge by three conservation groups to the authority of President Donald Trump's administration to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, a victory for Trump who has made the wall a centerpiece of his hardline immigration policies, the Free Beacon website reports today (December 9, 2018).
The justices declined to hear the groups' appeal of a ruling by a federal judge in California rejecting their claims that the administration had pursued border wall projects without complying with applicable environmental laws.
The three groups are the Center for Biological Diversity, the Animal Legal Defense Fund, and Defenders of Wildlife.
Trump has clashed with U.S. lawmakers over his plans for an extensive and costly border wall that he has called necessary to combat illegal immigration and drug smuggling. Congress has not yet provided him with the $5 billion in funding he wants for the wall.
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