Given a new chief Border Patrol agent’s plans to expand warrantless searches here, Mainers should prepare for challenges to their constitutional rights.
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Pentagon takes money from projects in Puerto Rico, Europe to fund border wall
President Trump is taking the money from 127 military construction projects after Congress, to which the Constitution gives the power of the purse, refused to fund the border wall.
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Pentagon OKs military construction funding to build border wall
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery is one of the 127 projects that could be affected, but department officials won’t release details until Wednesday.
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Supreme Court says Trump can spend military funds for border wall
The 5-4 vote sets aside an appeals court ruling that the reallocation of Defense Department money would violate federal law.