house with how the president is reacting to the decision. sarah. reporter: that s right. president trump is of course declaring victory after the supreme court decision yesterday. he took to twitter last night writing, wow, big victory on the wall, the united states supreme court overturns lower court injunction and allows building the wall to proceed. this was a narrow 5-4 decision split along ideological lines with the conservative majority writing they didn t believe the challengers to the efforts to use the pentagon money had the legal right to do so. that may give you some indication of how the supreme court will rule when the case ultimately comes back to it. this could be a temporary win for president trump because the supreme court s ruling only that president trump can use that 2.5 billion dollars while this lawsuit continues to work its way through the lower courts, not that the trump administration is ultimately correct in its efforts to try to
back withitics lead. president trump throwing his weight behind a republican candidate for senate. a candidate that many other republicans call too extreme. this morning mr. trump embraced corey stewart, celebrating the primary win last night writing, congratulations to corey stewart for his victory and don t underestimate corey. a major chance of winning. the nomination has ala many republicans in virginia and elsewhere after all, one of his primary opponents, green beret combat veteran urged virginian to reject his dog whistling of white supremacists and anti-semites and racist. he s known for his ties to unprepentent bigots inclung
the way for mr. trump s border wall. u.s. district judge gonzalo curiel deciding the administration has the authority to waive certain environmental laws to begin construction. the judge pointing out he ignored politics in reaching the decision and writes, in the review of the case the court cannot and does not consider whether underlying decisions to construct the border barriers are politically wise or prudent. the president came under criticism in june of 2016 when he said judge curiel, who was born in indiana, was biased against him because of curiel s mexican heritage. mr. trump in a tweet last night writing, u.s. judge sided with the trump administration. now this important project can go forward. in reality, judge curiel s 100-page order does not mean construction of the wall will yet begin. but congress first has to authorize or provide funding. a battle escalated between oakland s mayor and immigration officials. federal agents have arrested more than 150 people in nor
decision and writes, in its review of the case, the court cannot and does not consider whether underlying decisions to construct the barriers are wise or prudent. the president came under criticism in june of 2016 when he said judge curiel, who was born in indiana, was biased against him because of his mexican heritage. mr. trump softened his tone quite a bit last night writing, u.s. judge sided with the trump administration. now the support and project can go forward. in reality, the judge s 100-page order does not mean construction of the wall will begin yet. congress first has to authorize or provide funding. a battle escalating between oakland s mayor and immigration officials. federal agents have arrested more than 150 people in northern california since sunday for a variety of alleged violations. on saturday, the day before these operations began, the oakland mayor, libby schaaf, warned the public. she said she was doing it to
abby: griff jenkins is live for us from our nation s capitol with those breaking details. griff, good morning. good morning, guys. the administration is confidence freezing lower court s decisions to block it. the justice department argues in their filing late last night that the fourth circuit of appeals in richmond made several mistakes in their ruling, stressing this order makes the nation safer if it s in place. the order halts new visas from being issued from people in six muslim majority countries they are iran, libya, somalia, sudan, syria, and yemen. president trump initially signed the executive order in january but immediately faced backlash with protests erupting across the country and federal judges blocking it. then in march, the president issued a narrower order which was then blocked by federal courts and hawaii filed a lawsuit against the order. the aclu lashing out on twitter last night writing we beat this hateful ban and ready to do it again #no