Posted on 09/06/2023 6:02:26 PM PDT by thegagline
You write: “Texas will lose in court over this nonsense. It is illegal and unconstitutional. They can appeal all the way to the USSC, Texas will lose.”
Well for your sake, let’s hope so.
The constitution does not give states the right to interfere it’s navigable rivers, that is purely in the purview of the federal government.. it’s spelled out in the constitution .
Texas is in complete violation of the constitution with this nonsense.
Kinda what I’m thinking.
They will, states cannot interfere with navigable rivers… constitution is very clear. The barriers are in violation of the constitution as well as the treaty of gualdlupe etc.
Texas does not have a legal or constitutional leg to stand on.
They will lose.
All the way to the US supreme court…. Lets do this. I am so sick of immigrants getting the one up on me. Texas has a right to protect its citizens not criminals.
Do the barriers stay while it is appealed?
For gods sake, just once defy them and say no. Then at least they will have to send Feds to do it and they will get what they call “bad optics”. Abbott will cave as he always does.
Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution states, “No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.”
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Given the current USSC majority, I think Abbott stands on pretty solid ground. That Texas and other states WERE INVADED is not even open to intelligent discussion.
Don’t appeal, DEFY!
Illegal orders MUST BE IGNORED!
Then let the faygs at the fed come remove it.
The Rio Grande a navigable waterway? It is only navigable to swimmers, kayaks, canoes and small boats. Plus Abbott’s floating barrier does not impede such craft navigating the river on the US side of the border. It only impedes illegal traffic across the border.
Tell the idiot corrupt judge to come and get it.
Perhaps, they will lose. But if the Government refuses to discharge its responsibility to protect the state, does the state have the right to protect itself. That is the BIG ONE that the Supreme Court will have to decide.
Reagan pick.
Yeah, unfortunately you are correct.
Texas needs to erect stuff on Texas State land...
Even that will go through the courts, but it might have a shot
Uhh dude...
Immigration and naturalization are powers granted to the feds by that pesky constitution thingy..
The states have no right to interfere with the feds on their constitutional rights...
There comes a time when governors have to ignore the fed “rulings”. They’re going to obey until we’re enslaved.
I’m actually kind of surprised that some enterprising ‘migrants’ haven’t stolen it and sold it for its scrap value, or ripped it up to make temporary little shelters.
The Texas side of the Rio Grande is Texas soil. If the barrier crosses over into Mexico, then the Mexican government is free to dismantle it as they please. I am unaware of any international seaport on the US side of the Rio Grande.
That’s navigable. And the Rio Grande can and is used for foreign commerce (illegal commerce is still commerce!), which is specifically covered in the federal law on this. What Texas did violates international treaty law w Mexico, federal law on waterway obstruction and the constitution. Very dumb fight from Abbott from a legal perspective.
This socalled “judge” needs to be arrested for aiding and abetting criminal foreign illegal aliens with their invasion of America. Lock his ass up!
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