The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has revived the House’s lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s diversion of military funds for border wall construction along the nearly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border. Most of the land without any wall or barriers is in Texas along the Rio Grande River. President Trump has stated repeatedly that an “impenetrable” wall is necessary to “stop dangerous drugs and criminals from pouring into our country.”

U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden last year dismissed the House’s case due to a lack of standing to sue over the executive order. A three-judge panel on the D.C. Circuit on Friday, pointing to the en banc circuit’s recent ruling on the House’s Article III standing to sue to enforce subpoenas, partly reversed McFadden’s ruling tossing constitutional claims made by the House and sent the case back to the trial court.

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