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Supreme Court: Big Bend border-wall responses due Thursday; Baltimore deportation-pause fight fully briefed with no order yet; November sitting opens Nov. 2

Published , Monday, October 26, 2026 · Updated
In the 5 PM CT update

Supreme Court: Big Bend border-wall responses due Thursday; Baltimore deportation-pause fight fully briefed with no order yet; November sitting opens Nov. 2
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Responses to the Trump administration's Oct. 21 request to resume border-wall construction in the Big Bend region of Texas are due by 4 p.m. EDT Thursday, SCOTUSblog reported Monday. The docket in City of Baltimore v. Texas (No. 26A500), over a Texas-Justice Department agreement on deportation proceedings, shows briefing completed with the applicants' Oct. 23 reply, and the Court's orders page lists nothing after Oct. 21. The November sitting begins Monday, Nov. 2.

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