The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which issued the disputed interim ruling, is set to hear arguments on Feb. 7 over whether Border Patrol agents violated Texas law by cutting the razor-wire barrier.
The justices, in a 5-4 decision, granted a request by President Joe Biden's administration to pause a lower court's ruling that temporarily blocked federal agents from disturbing the fencing while litigation over the issue proceeds.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor sided with the administration. Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas voted with Texas.
None of the justices provided any explanation for their vote. The one-page order looks like a victory for the Biden administration, but it merely allows the Biden to clear the wire while the lawsuit over the wire continues.
Conservatives, including the CHQ team, were infuriated by the Supreme Court’s order.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) called on Texas officials to ignore the Supreme Court ruling declaring the federal government could remove razor wire on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Roy called the opinion from the court “unconscionable,” and called for the state to ignore it in a post online.
“It’s like, if someone’s breaking into your house, and the court says ‘Oh, sorry. You can’t defend yourself.’ What do you tell the court?” Roy said according to reporting by Lauren Irwin of The Hill. “You tell the court to go to hell, you defend yourself and then figure it out later.”
And, as Governor Abbott said, “This is not over.”
2 comments:
All this ruking has done is confirm which of the blackrobed pirates need to be strung up when the festivities commence.
I thought I read that Gov. Abbott has something else up his sleeve, I'm waiting to see what it is. He needs to tell SCOTUS and the Feds to F-off. The Fed Gov. is the problem, not the solution!!
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