Greens pin new hopes on Supreme Court in waiver fight

摘要

A federal judge scrapped another legal battle over whether the Trump administration can be exempt from certain environmental statutes in its effort to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), the lead challenger in the case, said it will likely bring the question to the nation's highest court. U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's Friday dismissal of CBD's claims over wall construction in Arizona follows her decision earlier this month in a related case dealing with the Department of Homeland Security's waivers of the Endangered Species Act and other rules for portions of the project through New Mexico and Texas.