It sure looks to me like the feds are trying to get a fight started somewhere. You don’t mess with Texas unless you want trouble. I’m not a Texan, but my parents rest in Texas soil and I love the state. I am blessed to live in Alabama, home of the only statesman in Washington, Jeff Sessions.
I was talking to one of my daughters about this today, and the only thing that I could come up with when she asked "Why Texas?", was the feds were taking the little-tough-man approach. That's the one where the little guy with a chip on his shoulder shows up and just arbitrarily cold-cocks the biggest guy he sees to prove to everybody how macho he is.
If Texas fights and fails, its doubtful that any other State would even make the slightest attempt to stop them again.