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Supreme Court lets border wall construction resume in Big Bend

A district judge had halted the work in October. The government says the stoppage cost nearly half a million dollars a day. Justice Jackson alone would have refused.

Gus Ferreira
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Border wall work resumes in Texas after court ruling
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The Supreme Court cleared the Trump administration to resume border wall construction in the Big Bend region of southwestern Texas.[1] Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson would have denied the government's request.[2] She was the only justice recorded against it. What the court undid District Judge Kathleen Cardone temporarily halted the construction on 2 October.[3] Her court had stopped work in the Big Bend sector by injunction.[4] The work was stopped for a little over five weeks. What the court did not do The government did not get everything it asked for. The court denied its request to summarily reverse the lower court's ruling.[5] The case continues below while the building goes on. The cost argument The government incurs nearly half a million dollars a day while construction is halted.[6] Over the five weeks of the halt, that rate comes to something near $19 million. The ground The Big Bend border sector covers more than 500 miles of the southern border.[7] The response The Center for Biological Diversity criticized the ruling.[8]
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  1. The Supreme Court cleared the Trump administration to resume border wall construction in the Big Bend region of southwestern Texas. · scotusblog.com
  2. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson would have denied the government's request. · scotusblog.com
  3. District Judge Kathleen Cardone temporarily halted Big Bend border wall construction on October 2, 2026. · scotusblog.com
  4. A district court had previously halted construction in the Big Bend sector via injunction. · cbsnews.comUnited States
  5. The Supreme Court denied the government request to summarily reverse the lower court ruling. · scotusblog.com
  6. The government incurs nearly half a million dollars daily while border wall construction is halted. · scotusblog.com
  7. The Big Bend border sector covers over 500 miles of the southern border. · cbsnews.comUnited States
  8. The Center for Biological Diversity criticized the Supreme Court ruling. · cbsnews.comUnited States
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A construction site in the Big Bend region of Texas, with a crane and concrete mixer in the foreground, and a segment of border wall in the background, under a severe overcast sky with deep shadows, and a single ember-orange accent from a warning light on the crane.


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A construction site in the Big Bend region of Texas, with a crane and concrete mixer in the foreground, and a segment of border wall in the background, under a severe overcast sky with deep shadows, and a single ember-orange accent from a warning light on the crane. Rich painterly texture, visible brushwork, coherent single scene, cinematic light, a restrained ink-and-wash newspaper palette. Coherent single scene, wide composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text ANYWHERE in the image, whatever the model: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no road signs, no billboards, no neon signs, no storefront or shop lettering, no marquees, no banners, no placards, no posters, no license plates, no printed pages, no screens or displays showing any text or UI, no brand names, no company names, no product names, no watermark, no logos. Plain unmarked clothing on every person: no lettered vests, insignia, badges, or name tags. Plain unlettered bodies on every vehicle, truck, screen and vessel. No such surface appears at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing. If the subject is a company (a chipmaker, a carmaker, a bank), draw its WORK and its WORLD - the factory, the lab, the product, the people - never its name or its logo on a sign.
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