SUPREME COURT
Greens prep fight over Trump's border wall
Environmentalists are getting ready to defend their lower-court wins on President Trump's border wall funding plans after the nation's highest bench agreed this morning to take up the case.
Jennifer Yachnin
Reporter
Jennifer writes about public lands issues, including access, development and the state land transfer movement. She previously covered campaigns and elections at E&E. Before joining E&E News in 2011, she spent 10 years at the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call where she worked as an investigative reporter writing about ethics, campaign finance and congressional wealth. Her work has also appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Detroit News and on National Public Radio. She has appeared as an expert guest on outlets including C-SPAN, NPR and local television. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan.
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