US Supreme Court to hear two cases on Trump immigration policy
Al JazeeraUS high court to determine legality of ‘Remain in Mexico’ and funding for Trump’s border wall in 2021. The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear two cases involving Trump administration policies at the US-Mexico border: One about a policy that makes asylum seekers wait in Mexico for US court hearings and a second about the administration’s use of money to fund the border wall. The Justice Department appealed a lower court’s June 26 decision that Trump’s administration lacked the authority to shift the military funds towards the border project because the so-called Appropriations Clause of the US Constitution exclusively grants the power of the purse to Congress. BREAKING: The Supreme Court announced it will hear arguments in a challenge to the Trump administration's use of $2.5 billion for border wall construction that Congress explicitly denied. US District Judge Haywood Gilliam in Oakland, California, ruled last year the administration’s use of the Pentagon funds for a border wall was unlawful and issued an injunction blocking the transfer of funds.