Supreme Court permits Big Bend border construction during litigation

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Construction halt lifted while challenge to legal waivers continues

The U.S. Supreme Court lifted an injunction blocking border barriers and related infrastructure in Texas’s Big Bend region on November 9, allowing construction to proceed while litigation continues, CBS reports. The dispute concerns Homeland Security’s use of a 1996 law to waive environmental and historic-preservation requirements for border construction. The district court had found that the secretary exceeded his authority. The immediate consequence is removal of the court-ordered construction halt; the litigation remains unresolved. The Big Bend sector includes the national park but extends beyond it, so the regional project should not be understood as a single wall through the park. The timestamp records CBS’s publication, not the decision’s exact time. Assessment window: November 8, 2026, 20:25:37.837 UTC–November 9, 2026, 20:25:37.837 UTC.

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