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Supreme Court: responses in the Big Bend border-wall fight are due today; no new orders since Tuesday; November sitting opens Monday

Published , Thursday, October 29, 2026 · Updated
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Supreme Court: responses in the Big Bend border-wall fight are due today; no new orders since Tuesday; November sitting opens Monday
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Responses to the Trump administration's Oct. 21 request to let it resume border-wall construction in Texas's Big Bend region are due by 4 p.m. EDT Thursday, SCOTUSblog reported. The Court's orders page lists no orders since Tuesday, Oct. 27, and the November sitting opens Monday, Nov. 2, with Maxwell v. Dinis, on whether a federal inmate can use habeas corpus to speed a move to a halfway house or home confinement, SCOTUSblog said.

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