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As soon as President Joe Biden entered the White House, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an unprecedented campaign of obstruction to block his agenda in the courts. Paxton took advantage of a quirkreally, a loopholein the federal judiciary: A state can pick the specific judge who will oversee its case by filing in a small division where only one judge sits. Using this strategy, Paxton has positioned his cases before a rotating cast of the same conservative judges, most of them nominated by Donald Trump. They have dutifully played their role in this pantomime of litigation, issuing an unending series of sweeping injunctions that block Biden administration policies nationwide for months or years.
On Thursday, the administration finally said: enough. In response to yet another Texas lawsuit exploiting this loophole, Bidens Justice Department called out Paxtonand, implicitly, the judges playing along with his scheme. The DOJ highlighted Texas blatant and shameless judge-shopping, urging a transfer to another court in the interests of justice. Naturally, Trump-nominated Judge Drew Tipton is unlikely to oblige; that is, after all, why Paxton hand-picked him for this lawsuit. But the DOJs filing marks a new phase of battle against Republicans judicial gamesmanship: The Justice Department is playing hardball in the lower courts, forcing compromised judges to address their own complicity in a cynical partisan chicanery.
The underlying lawsuit in Texas v. Department of Homeland Security is another frivolous effort to shift control over border policy from the executive branch to a single federal judge. Paxton has pulled this off before: In August 2021, he persuaded another Trump-nominated judge, Matthew J. Kacsmaryk, to block Bidens repeal of a Trump policy that forced U.S.-bound migrants to remain in Mexico. Kacsmaryk even forced U.S. diplomats to negotiate with Mexican officials under threat of sanctions. Texas new suit, filed on Tuesday, seeks to do something similar. The state is infuriated by a new agreement between the Biden administration and Mexico regarding migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Venezuela. (The U.S. cannot send these migrants back to their home countries.) The agreement compels most of these migrants to stay on the Mexican side of the border. But it allows a small number of them to enter the U.S. legallyand remain here for a limited periodif they are vetted and have financial supporters in the country already.
This policy, first implemented in December, has already contributed to a dramatic reduction in unlawful entry among migrants from the four relevant nations. But Texas is furious that the new rules will allow some migrants to enter the U.S. lawfully. So its lawsuit asks the judiciary to strike down the entire policy, blowing up negotiations between the Mexican and American governments.
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2naSalit
(86,535 posts)Shitnecks are always trying to have their own little fiefdom down there and all they can show is that they are so rinky dink ignorant that they can't even recognize reality when it shows up in front of them.
I hope the top Rs in the state end up in prison at some point.
Wounded Bear
(58,645 posts)Historically, it has been used to "protect" some of the most heinous practices in our society. In the 19th Century, it was slavery and that led to the Civil War. In the 20th Century it was Jim Crow and general racism against American blacks.
Now, it appears that the Texas government is trying to usurp Immigration Policy for political gain.