CRS Legal Sidebar Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Legal SidebarLegal Sidebari i Supreme Court Stays Injunction That Had Blocked a Portion of the Administrations Border Wall Funding Updated July 29, 2019 UPDATE: On July 26, 2019, the Supreme Court in a divided decision stayed a June 28 injunction issued by a federal district court in California that had permanently prohibited the Trump Administration from using Sections 8005 and 9002 of the 2019 Department of Defense Appropriations Act to transfer any of the $2.5 billion it had proposed to use for border-barrier projects. The Trump Administration had appealed the district courts permanent injunction to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and asked that court to stay the injunction pending appeal, but the Ninth Circuit denied the Trump Administrations request earlier this month. In its order issuing a stay, the Supreme Court stated that “among the reasons” for its order was that the Trump Administration had “made a sufficient showing . . . that the plaintiffs have no cause of action to obtain review of” the Administrations transfer of funds pursuant to the 2019 Department of Defense Appropriations Act (dis
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