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NOW: In a divided decision, the Supreme Court rules the Trump administration can begin using some of the contested federal funds Trump redirected for border wall construction — the court granted the admin's request to stay a lower court injunction assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6219… 
Justices Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan would have denied the stay and left in place the injunction blocking the admin from using the funds while the case went forward; Breyer would have let the govt finalize contracts, but also blocked construction during the litigation
NOW: In a divided decision, the US Supreme Court will let Trump tap $2.5 billion in military counterdrug money to pay for border wall construction buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Today's SCOTUS order doesn't address the $3.6 billion in military construction funds that Trump had to declare a national emergency to access or the $600 million from the Treasury Forfeiture Fund — that's still being litigated buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
The majority of the justices (with Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan dissenting and Breyer mostly dissenting) found that DOJ had shown at this point they were likely to win in arguing the challengers lacked a cause of action to challenge the DOD reprogramming buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
