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  1. October 18, 2019

    Brennan Center, Cato Back Advocates In Border Wall Fight

    The Brennan Center for Justice and the Cato Institute have asked to join a California federal court suit challenging President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration, which made $8.1 billion available for a border wall, to argue as amici that the court should "stop this abuse of emergency power."

  2. August 28, 2019

    DOD Says It Saved Enough Money To Build More Border Wall

    The Department of Defense provided notice to a California federal court that it intends to authorize three additional border barrier projects in Arizona and California after it found that contract costs were lower than expected.

  3. June 19, 2019

    House Backs Push To Block Trump's Border Wall Funding

    The U.S. House of Representatives urged a California federal judge Wednesday to block President Donald Trump's efforts to reallocate defense dollars to a promised border wall's construction, arguing in an amicus brief the move unconstitutionally circumvents Congress' authority to control federal appropriations.

  4. June 05, 2019

    States Seek 10-Day Notice Before Trump Obligates Wall Funds

    An attorney representing 20 states seeking to block President Donald Trump's border wall urged a California federal judge Wednesday to require the government to provide a 10-day notice before it obligates military construction funds, arguing that once the funds are obligated, they could be impossible to recover.

  5. May 25, 2019

    Calif. Judge Partially Blocks Trump's Border Wall

    A California federal judge on Friday partially blocked the Trump administration from repurposing defense funds to build a wall along portions of the southern border and criticized its attempts to move money to the project even though Congress repeatedly denied funding requests.

  6. May 17, 2019

    Trump's Border Wall Faces Skeptical Calif. Judge

    A California federal judge appeared open Friday to blocking the Trump administration from repurposing defense funds to build a wall along the southern border, saying he doesn't know if it is right to let the government build the wall before legal challenges to it are resolved.

  7. May 06, 2019

    Advocates Defend Bid To Block Use Of DOD Funds For Wall

    Advocacy groups have urged a California federal court to grant their motion for a preliminary injunction that would block the U.S. Department of Defense from repurposing its funds to build President Donald Trump's long-promised wall along the southern border.

  8. April 29, 2019

    White House Blasts Activists' Bid To Block Wall Funding

    The Trump administration has fired back at a bid by a pair of advocacy groups to block the U.S. Department of Defense from repurposing its funds to build a wall along the southern border.