SCOTUS: Take down the razor wire
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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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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
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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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
@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?
