This week, the Supreme Court sided with federal agents to remove razor wire put in place by Texas along the Rio Grande. The state is using wire and state agents to block Border Patrol from accessing a section of the border in Eagle Pass. Homeland Security is demanding access to the area by Friday, but Gov. Greg Abbott is doubling down. Laura Barrón-López discussed the dispute with Stephen Vladeck.

This week, the Supreme Court sided with federal agents to remove razor wire put in place by Texas along the Rio Grande. The state is using wire and state agents to block Border Patrol from accessing a section of the border in Eagle Pass. Homeland Security is demanding access to the area by Friday, but Gov. Greg Abbott is doubling down. Laura Barrón-López discussed the dispute with Stephen Vladeck.

  • Aidinthel@reddthat.com
    97·
    8 months ago

    It sure would be nice if Democrats were as committed to doing good as Republicans are to doing evil.

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
      46·
      8 months ago

      But that’s the problem. Democrats aren’t heroes. They’re just regular politicians trying to climb the ladder and maybe do a good thing for people they care about personally. They stand in opposition to evil, sometimes, but that’s not the same as actively trying to make things better for everyone. You could count on one hand the number of leaders we have actively working towards a better world, and most of them would be considered crackpots.

        • winterayars@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          8 months ago

          They’re literally only less corrupt enough (and not an ounce more) such that they don’t get laughed at when they say you should vote for the lesser of two evils.

    • jubejube@lemmus.orgEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      Can you explain how managing legal immigration is evil? I’m sure Texas would be happy to bus them all to your house. I trust you have the resources to take care of them.

  • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
    43·
    8 months ago

    I really wish Texans would take a page out of French protestors and just start setting things on fire, spewing trucks full of animal waste all over the unecessarily fancy government buildings, and finally put Abbot and his entire wealthy billionaire grifting affluent family under the guillotine, done all in Minecraft.

    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      19·
      8 months ago

      Wouldn’t go over well in the end. “Antifa has started burning cities down, and is using biological weapons against the government. We are taking action against them.”

      We’ve already seen black vans grabbing people in Portland during protests, what do you think will happen when their claims are only mostly baseless, and not completely baseless?

      • Shalakushka@kbin.social
        3·
        8 months ago

        By that logic, I guess we should all live our lives in fear of the potential backlash of fascists to any social action. Wait, doesn’t that just result in them deciding how we live our lives anyway?

      • winterayars@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        8 months ago

        In Minneapolis they burned a police precinct to the ground and that thing still hasn’t been rebuilt to this day. Resistance is possible.

  • Jordan117@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    8 months ago

    Abbott’s a bigoted demogogue asshole, but this entire thing feels way overblown, thanks largely to poor reporting.

    The Supreme Court ruling in question was one of those zero-commentary “shadow docket” things that simply struck down a lower court injunction holding that the federal Border Patrol was not allowed to cut razor wire laid by the Texas state guard. The clear implication is that the feds have ultimate jurisdiction and the state needs to stay in their fucking lane. But because of the ruling’s terseness, there’s wiggle room for Abbott to say that they didn’t explicitly order Texas to stop placing wire or to obstruct Border Patrol operations, only that the feds were permitted to remove it if they wanted. So he takes that legal loophole and uses it to give a big middle finger to the administration and the Court using the same hysterical rhetoric he always has.

    Problem is all the reporting on the Court ruling glossed over the mechanics and interpreted it as saying more than it actually did, which in turn makes Texas’s obstinacy look less like legal trolling and more like a full-blown constitutional crisis. But Abbott has not (yet) directly disobeyed a Supreme Court order, and I expect the administration will petition the Court for an expedited slapdown of his semantic bullshit. If he ignores that, or right-wing threats pressure the Court into reversing their prior decision, then we’re really into nullification crisis territory. But the freakout roiling progressives is, at this point, premature.

  • rice_nine@lemmy.world
    8·
    8 months ago

    Does the Texas National Guard fall under the regular Military Chain of Command? Could, say an Army General, order the guard to stand down/withdraw or face court martial?