It took almost six months, but that’s effectively game over — for this particularly heinous part of Texas’s “Operation Lone Star“. States do not have the right to usurp federal control of border matters. Period. Here was my “hot take” comment on it. [Update — and to make my hot take accurate, replace Barrett with Gorsuch, throughout, below. W I L D.] Woot!
…I’d say… “winning ugly is STILL… winning!”
It means Chief Justice Roberts voted that razor wires by Texas violate our treaties and the US immigration laws.
Not sure who might have been the fifth vote, but the Chief is certainly among the five.
And while some people still believe each Justice decides these matters utterly… independently (in some ivory tower — that is not remotely the reality… these folks more than occasionally eat lunch together; go to the theater, or opera, together and function like any other social group), so I’m gonna’ bet that once
GorsuchBarrett saw Roberts was moving to dissolve the injunction (previously in favor of Texas)… she likely didn’t want to be on the wrong side of history.So… the holdouts were most likely Thomas (of course!), Alito, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch
Barrett.Namaste….
Now you know. With A H/T to Anon.!
नमस्ते

Alternate headline: Four Supreme Court Justices Don’t Understand Supremacy Clause
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Or… Four do, but refuse to let anything, or anyone — other than hard right cruelty — rule in Texas.
Damn.
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