5th Circuit will reconsider forcing Texas to remove Rio Grande migrant barrier

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US court will reconsider forcing Texas to remove Rio Grande migrant barrier

A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday said it would reconsider a recent decision requiring Texas to remove a 1,000-foot-long (305-meter) floating barrier it had placed in the Rio Grande river to deter migrants from illegally crossing the border with Mexico.

The decision by the full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans sets aside a divided three-judge panel's December ruling, which had sided with the Biden administration and said that the state could not install the string of buoys without permission from the federal government.

That ruling was a setback for Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, who has strongly criticized Democratic President Joe Biden's handling of record numbers of migrants crossing the border illegally.

The 5th Circuit said it would hear arguments in the case in May. Most of the court's 17 active judges are appointees of Republican presidents, but two of the three judges who decided the case in December were appointed by Democrats.

[bluestarone]

1. You gotta be fucking kidding me!

MAY? fucking MAY?

[lapfog_1]

2. we need a generation of Democratic Presidents.

like 32 years.

It wasn't JUST the SCOTUS that was at risk when Trump "beat" Clinton.

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4. +1

[getagrip_already]

3. an en banc hearing is unusual, but not unprecedented......

Did they stay the appellate court decision pending the full court hearing? The article didn't say.

A majority of the full court had to agree to hear it. So it is likely they will probably overturn the original decision.

Sheesh. Sure, you can set kill traps in the river. They are just vermin poisoning the blood of our country after all. (sarcasm dripping with disdain).

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5. The first sentence of the 2nd paragraph

Granting the en banc rehearing vacates the original 3 judge panel’s decision

[getagrip_already]

6. sorry, missed that....

tx

So it's open season on vermin

[limbicnuminousity]

7. The pustulent KKK bobbleheads on the 5th circuit

were only shamed into action because the fascists in the TNG literally watched people drown and people know. So of course they schedule for May. How many more people will the TNG allow to die or just kill during the intervening time? Of course they don't care. Migrants are replaceable in the Deep South. Hell, they bus 'em all over the place using their above-ground railway.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. Next up, razor wire around the whole state to control the movements of 'blue' people.

[UTUSN]

9. Might as well get on with it to SCotUS to make them do their travesty