SCOTUS: Take down the razor wire
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wrote on 22 Jan 2024, 21:22 last edited by
I think I get the court's reasoning - border security is a federal responsibility.
But "responsibility" and "security" are words not familiar to the Biden administration.
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wrote on 23 Jan 2024, 01:26 last edited by
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wrote on 25 Jan 2024, 01:26 last edited by
Abbott responds:
"The Executive Branch of the United States has a constitutional duty to enforce federal laws protecting States, including immigration laws on the books right now," reads the statement. "President Biden has instructed his agencies to ignore federal statutes that mandate the detention of illegal immigrants. The failure of the Biden Administration to fulfill the duties imposed by Article IV, § 4 has triggered Article I, § 10, Clause 3, which reserves to this State the right of self-defense. For these reasons, I have already declared an invasion under Article I, § 10, Clause 3 to invoke Texas’s constitutional authority to defend and protect itself. That authority is the supreme law of the land and supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary."
Will this hold water? I dunno - but it's going to be a hoot finding out.
Full statement:
https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/Border_Statement_1.24.2024.pdf
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wrote on 27 Nov 2024, 23:03 last edited by
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wrote on 27 Nov 2024, 23:12 last edited by
That's a good decision.
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Abbott responds:
"The Executive Branch of the United States has a constitutional duty to enforce federal laws protecting States, including immigration laws on the books right now," reads the statement. "President Biden has instructed his agencies to ignore federal statutes that mandate the detention of illegal immigrants. The failure of the Biden Administration to fulfill the duties imposed by Article IV, § 4 has triggered Article I, § 10, Clause 3, which reserves to this State the right of self-defense. For these reasons, I have already declared an invasion under Article I, § 10, Clause 3 to invoke Texas’s constitutional authority to defend and protect itself. That authority is the supreme law of the land and supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary."
Will this hold water? I dunno - but it's going to be a hoot finding out.
Full statement:
https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/Border_Statement_1.24.2024.pdf
wrote on 28 Nov 2024, 00:31 last edited by@George-K said in SCOTUS: Take down the razor wire:
Texas’s constitutional authority to defend and protect itself. That authority is the supreme law of the land and supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary."
I did not read the latest ruling, but the appeal court was saying the above was correct?
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wrote on 28 Nov 2024, 01:55 last edited by George K
Re-reading the original post, it looks like SCOTUS said that the Border Patrol may remove the razor wire.
That's not the same, by any legal stretch, the same as shall remove the razor wire.
Am I reading that right?