Posted on 01/20/2021 9:42:38 AM PST by SeekAndFind
With President-elect Joe Biden set to assume office and two newly-elected Georgia Democrat senators poised to be sworn in on Wednesday, Texas Republicans are preparing to mount a flurry of legal challenges to push back against the incoming administration’s progressive agenda.
The Biden administration has signaled a left-leaning agenda on energy, taxes, immigration, health care, and other priorities. Biden has vowed to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord and take far-reaching steps on climate change, including seeking to cut greenhouse gas emissions by half by 2030 and effectively ending them by around 2050, sparking existential fears from the fossil fuel industry, a key economic pillar for Texas.
Biden has also proposed sweeping immigration reform that would create a pathway to citizenship for more than 11 million illegal immigrants, and plans to roll back Trump’s corporate tax cuts and raise income tax.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who while serving as the state’s attorney general famously proclaimed, “I go into the office, I sue the federal government, and I go home,” said on Saturday that the Biden White House can expect a spate of legal challenges from the Lone Star state.
“A new crop of Texas-led lawsuits awaits Joe Biden’s White House,” Abbott wrote in a Saturday tweet.
“Texas will take action whenever the federal government encroaches on states’ rights, or interferes with constitutional rights, or private property rights, or the right to earn a living,” Abbott added.
The Lone Star state sued the administration of former President Barack Obama dozens of times to stop initiatives such as the Clean Power Plan or to end the Affordable Care Act, the signature health plan known as Obamacare.
The conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), which filed the Affordable Care Act challenge that is now before the U.S. Supreme Court, is gearing up for a flurry of legal challenges.
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How about Anchor baby Harris can’t be President
God Bless Texas!
And the courts will shoot them down for no standing. Roberts the closet homo, party-boy Kavenaugh, and Amy Conehead Barrett will rubber stamp it when they do.
All the Red States need to do this.
President Pelosi will make Austin look like Soviet occupied Budapest.
I hope Texas is prepared for the deep state blowback
Coordinated Media attacks on their “racist” administration.
Local leftist ridicule, elitist condescension
select leftist brownshirt street agitation or outrages against the homes of TX politicians
Non-stop Federal court and DOJ harassment of policies
FBI investigation and manufactured charges of corruption
We have seen how the game is played. Be ready.
DeSantis needs to throw in with Abbott
Subject this criminal “administration” to the same lawfare they subjected Trump to
“You don’t have standing. Rejected!”
No standing, only Goldman Sachs does, or The City of Baltimore again big Oil due to damages from “Global Warming” ...
Texas will have no standing, doesn’t anybody learn anything. Texas needs to hold back all payments it makes to the Federal Government, that will get their attention.
Then they shut the pipelines going to the East Coast. NYC is a pretty cold place with no heating oil or gas.
RE: “You don’t have standing. Rejected!”
And how many divisions does the SCOTUS command?
Didn’t obama..I mean bride me..say something about nuking Texas his first day in office?
Thank God Above for Texas!!!!!
Good to hear, but good luck with the corrupt judges that seem to permeate our judicial system.
Filed in Federal Court. There is an inherent conflict of interest here. Federal Courts deciding scope of federal power. “Yep, the federal government has that power.”
That will be pelosi’s argument...see “they” have got it all figured out.
Bet noone else figured out the real plan.
Sounds good to me! If it wasn’t for the heat and/or the humidity I’d be living there right now. Oh,and I forgot to mention the Mexicans.
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