A Supreme Court stay lets border barrier work resume in the Big Bend Sector, where Customs and Border Protection estimated a suspension cost of at least $462,800 a day.
The estimate came from contractor projections in a declaration filed with the Court; it is not a finding that the government has paid that amount.
From the source record
The stay will terminate automatically in the event this Court denies certiorari.U.S. Supreme Court ↗
The Nov. 9 stay pauses an Oct. 2 preliminary injunction while the federal government seeks further Supreme Court review. It does not decide the underlying challenge to federal border-construction waivers. The Court’s order says the stay ends if review is denied; if review is granted, it lasts through the Court’s judgment.
What the filing says about the work
CBP described five Big Bend projects in its filed declaration. It said about three-quarters of a mile of barrier had been installed in the Big Bend 1 area when work stopped. Those project details and the daily cost estimate are the agency’s statements in the litigation, not measures of work completed after the stay.
The justices said the challengers’ major-questions argument is statutory and likely falls outside the district court’s jurisdiction under a provision of federal immigration law. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson would have denied the stay. The Texas Tribune first reported the ruling.
What to watch next
Guadalupe County residents can track the next petition or order on the Supreme Court docket. The docket is the public route for checking whether the government has sought review and what the Court decides next.