The U.S. Supreme court released a decision Monday allowing border wall construction to continue in the Big Bend, afer a federal district judge stopped most the project by granting an injunction on October 2.
The unsigned decision by the court had Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in dissent.
“The Trump administration and its contractors are hellbent on destroying one of America’s greatest national parks, and the Supreme Court just gave them the green light,” said Laiken Jordahl, national public lands advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity, in a statement. The center is one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the project, which won the injunction.
“This horrific decision clears the way for contractors to bulldoze pristine desert and dynamite canyon walls before the courts have even decided whether this destruction is legal,” Jordahl said. “They’re signing off on the permanent destruction of the wildest place in Texas, and the theft of a great American river from all of us.”
The Big Bend Sentinel will have additional coverage of the ruling, the basis for it, and what to expect.
