Judge blocks Trump plan to spend $3.6 billion in military funds on border barrier
A federal judge in El Paso, Texas, on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration’s plan to pay for border barrier construction with $3.6 billion in military funds, ruling that the administration […]
Judge rejects House suit to block transfer of billions of dollars for Trump border wall
WASHINGTON – A federal judge in Washington on Monday rejected a House lawsuit to block spending on President Donald Trump‘s plan to build a wall at the border with Mexico. […]
Trump blasts judge who blocked part of border wall construction
President Donald Trump called the federal judge who temporarily blocked construction of the southern border wall “another activist Obama appointed judge,” and said his administration would appeal the decision. Trump […]
Administration tells judge Congress really didn’t deny wall funding when it failed to appropriate money for it
OAKLAND, Calif. – In the first court hearing over President Donald Trump‘s border wall funding plan, administration lawyers on Friday vigorously pressed their controversial argument that Congress did not in […]
House fails to override Trump veto on border emergency
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump‘s declaration of a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border survived a critical vote in the House on Tuesday as Democrats failed to override his veto, […]
Ex-officials declare ‘no factual basis’ for wall emergency
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of 58 former senior national security officials will issue a statement Monday saying that “there is no factual basis” for President Donald Trump‘s proclamation of […]
Trump’s border wall faces Texas-size backlash from land owners
Gary Jacobs looks out over the Rio Grande from the deck of the clubhouse at a public golf course in Webb County, Texas. It’s a sunny morning, quiet except for […]
Questions surround first border wall contract
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A tiny Nebraska startup awarded the first border wall construction project under President Donald Trump is the offshoot of a construction firm that was sued repeatedly […]
The judge Trump disparaged as ‘Mexican’ will preside over an important border wall case
The federal judge whom President Donald Trump disparaged as a “Mexican” during his campaign will preside over a case brought against one of the president’s most highly touted initiatives: the […]
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- Second Circuit – Arbitration agreement: The NY and Presbyterian Hosp. v. NYS Nurses Assoc.
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