The Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear an appeal from a coalition of environmental groups that rejected the Trump administration’s construction of the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The groups, led by the Center for Biological Diversity, challenged a 1996 law that gives the president authority to combat illegal immigration and border crossings, and limit some legal challenges.
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The coalition claimed that the Trump administration did not carry out enough environmental impact studies for the construction and that endangered species such as the jaguar and the Mexican wolf would be adversely affected by the barrier.
They claimed in their case that the law’s permission for the Secretary of Homeland Security to renounce the laws necessary to allow the rapid construction of border fences violates the separation of powers of the Constitution. The DC Circuit Court of Appeals had dismissed the case, citing a previous 2007 case with “an almost identical context.”
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“This Tribunal considers the precedent to be persuasive, and compels the conclusion that the Plaintiffs’ claim does not establish plausible constitutional claims as a matter of law,” said the Circuit Court ruling.
Bill Mears and The Fox News Associated Press contributed to this report.
