The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that Texas can keep the buoys Governor Greg Abbott ordered installed in the Rio Grande.
The Biden-Harris administration sued the State of Texas to stop Texas from placing the barriers in the river that separates Mexico from the U.S. "Biden tried to remove them. I fought to keep them in the water," Abbott posted on social media.
Breitbart Texas reported that just over one year ago, contractors began placing the floating border buoys in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, Texas.
Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim and U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas Jaime Esparza sent a letter to Governor Abbott claiming the State illegally installed a floating border barrier in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, Texas.
Following an en banc appeal, the court's majority opinion overturned a lower court's preliminary injunction and wrote, "We hold that the district court clearly erred in finding that the United States will likely prove that the barrier is in a navigable stretch of the Rio Grande. We cannot square the district court's findings and conclusions with over a century's worth of precedent."
The case now goes back to the lower court in the Western District of Texas, where a trial on the matter is planned for August 6 in Austin, Texas.
The case is USA v. Greg Abbott, No. 23-50632, in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit en banc.
No comments:
Post a Comment