This is astonishing: a sitting federal judge is (AGAIN!) correcting Texas’s lies, on the record, to the Fifth Circuit, by a supplemental order tonight. [BTW, Hinderaker should carefully consider what it is he wishes for.]
The able USDC Judge’s supplemental order, of this evening… reads:
…Texas filed its emergency motion to stay to the Fifth Circuit at 5:19 PM CST on January 24, 2024, stating, “[t]he district court, however, has not ruled on Texas’s motion.” Opposed Motion to Stay Order, USA v. Abbott, No. 23-50632 (Jan. 24, 2024) (Dkt. # 124).
At no point did this Court say its order on Texas’s Emergency Motion would be issued before the end of banking hours on January 24, 2024. This Court did not receive the United States’ Expedited Opposition until after 2:00PM CST on January 23, 2024, thus preventing this Court from beginning its review of both parties’ papers until late on the afternoon January 23, 2024. Given that Texas filed its own Motion to Stay near midnight, the Court believed the State would anticipate that the Court would not enjoy the luxury of keeping standard bankers’ hours. This Court’s order was docketed and the parties noticed at 6:00 PM CST on the 24th of January 2024, well within the time frame the Court indicated in its earlier order.
This Court extended the State’s deadline to disclose experts to January 26, 2024, specifically to give the State the opportunity to develop a response of its own and to eliminate its need to file an appeal to the Fifth Circuit before seeing the Court’s order upon which that appeal was based. Given that the State’s [razor wire barrier] is still in the middle of the Rio Grand River, where it was originally placed, there was no reason the State could not wait an extra hour before filing its appeal. As it was, the State gave this Court and the United States virtually no time to get their respective filings on record….
It is clear that Texas thinks it is… a nation, unto itself. Perhaps it is time… to let them find out just how little they matter to the other 49. How much they actually take — without giving back. How their lack of any income tax would doom them, if they didn’t rely on the federal handouts for health care and school lunches and roads and bridges… so heavily.
And how (we all know!) they couldn’t defend their own border for 45 minutes, with the bit of law enforcement they do have.
Be careful what you boys all wish for there, Hinderaker — we just might oughta’ vote to let you… have it.
The Governor will starve, if required to pay market rate, plus import duties — on all California fruits and grains and wine (and all filmed entertainment) — and avocados. And corn, from Iowa and Illinois, to feed those longhorns. Idiots. Heh.
Damn.
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