BREAKING: Judge Blocks Part of Trump's Plan to Build Border Wall
President Trump’s efforts to build a wall along the southwest border hit a roadblock Friday evening when a federal judge in California granted a preliminary injunction against the administration that prevents it from redirecting funds from other agencies toward the barrier.
Judge Haywood Gilliam of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, who is overseeing a pair of adjacent lawsuits filed against the administration, wrote that the administration’s efforts likely overstep the president’s statutory authority.
The legal challenges were filed shortly after President Trump declared a national emergency along the southwest border with Mexico in February. The move by the president followed a two-month standoff with Congress over funding to build a long-promised barrier wall there.
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