How Republicans rigged Texas’s federal courts against Biden

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How Republicans rigged Texas’s federal courts against Biden

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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics ... -obamacare
It’s easy to secure court orders blocking major policies when you can choose your own judges.


One of the biggest impediments to President Joe Biden’s ability to govern is a small crew of Republican-appointed federal trial judges, all of whom sit in Texas.

In August of 2021, for example, a Trump-appointed judge named Matthew Kacsmaryk ordered the Biden administration to reinstate a Trump-era immigration policy, known as “Remain in Mexico,” which forced many migrants to live in awful conditions on the Mexican side of the US/Mexico border. Although the Supreme Court eventually determined that Kacsmaryk egregiously misread federal immigration law, it left his order in place for nearly a year — and the Court’s most recent decision concerning Remain in Mexico makes it very easy for Kacsmaryk to seize control of federal border policy once again.
Terrorists.
I sigh in your general direction.
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