The US supreme court has allowed Donald Trump to continue his administration’s construction of a border wall in Texas’s Big Bend region, including parts of Big Bend national park.

In an unsigned, five-page ruling , the nation’s highest court granted the Trump administration’s emergency request to suspend a lower court order that had temporarily stopped the project last month.

Liberal justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only member of the nine-member court to dissent from the ruling.

The justices wrote that the case’s plaintiffs, which include the Center for Biological Diversity, a Big Bend river guide and a church preservation group, “claim that construction in the Big Bend sector will diminish their ability to use and enjoy the area”.

However, they noted: “But Congress’s enactment of [immigration law] – which permits the secretary [of homeland security] to waive the requirements of environmental-protection and other conservation laws – reflects a clear preference for expeditious border construction…