We will drop a link to the exceedingly dubious supplemental memo of “law” Gov. Abbott’s boys filed this morning, ostensibly to answer the very solid one from CBP of last week.

In it, Texas preposterously argues that common law (or a few moldy old non-controlling cases, in disparate areas of local state law) will trump any Congressional/federal statutory grant of explicit authority to federal border authorities, to use its discretion in apprehending asylum seekers along the Eagle Pass section of the Rio Grande… either on land, or in the water.

That’s just… silly. Were that true, no state would ever have to follow (for example) EPA rules, or IRS directives on capital gains or trusts and estates transfer taxation — if that state said “well, that is a burden on our state’s citizens”.

As I say, that cannot pass a straight face test. Let’s now see if Alia Moses will adhere to clear and long-standing federal law, as the Chief USDC Judge in West Texas.

Onward, grinning… as the Sun is out, but the air is crisply chilly — over the newly fallen, very bright white snow, here….

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