USDC Judge Moses Sets March 4-5, 2024 — For Evidentiary Hearings — On Razor Wire Issues.

By mid-February, we will have each side’s view of the issues that remain contested.

Issues… like whether three putative asylum seekers drown in the Rio Grande in the mid-January cold snap.

Issues like whether State of Texas officers continue to willfully impede access (and then lie about it) — even in medical emergency situations — to Shelby Park, and its dock on the Rio Grande riverbed.

Issues… like whether AG Ken Paxton is openly courting lawless vigilantes to come to Del Rio, to hunt for federal agents of CBP and DHS.

Damn. Here’s that order, just entered this afternoon:

…It is ORDERED that consistent with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals’ order dated January 26, 2024, the court hold an in-person evidentiary hearing to develop the factual record in this matter;

It is FURTHER ORDERED that this hearing be held on March 4, 2024 and March 5, 2024, and that the hearing on each day start at 9 a.m.; and

It is FURTHER ORDERED that by February 15, 2024, the parties e-file a brief of no more than 10 pages that identifies the factual issues for which the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals requests factual findings.

SIGNED and ENTERED on this 29th day of January 2024….