CIVIL WAR II ?

THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS HAS ANNOUNCED THAT HE WILL NOT COMPLY WITH THE SUPREME COURT’S RULING THAT THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT HAS THE LAST WORD WITH RESPECT TO THE IMMIGRATION PROCESS. 

THE STATE OF TEXAS HAS ERECTED RAZORWIRE BARRIERS OVER AREAS IT DOES NOT RIGHTLY CONTROL AND THE RECENT RULING BY THE SUPREME COURT AUTHORIZING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO REMOVE THOSE BARRIERS HAS ELICITED AN UNAMBIGUOUS RESPONSE FROM GOVERNOR ABBOTT. HE HAS TOLD THE COURT, IN EFFECT “GO STUFF IT,” AND NOT ONLY SENT ARMED TEXAS OFFICERS TO PROTECT AND DEFEND HIS RAZORWIRE BARRIER, BUT SUGGESTED OTHER BORDER STATES SEND TROOPS TO SUPPORT THE TEXANS.

Meanwhile, the Republicans in the House refuse to cooperate in passing an immigration bill that might alleviate some, if not much, of our current immigration mess. Why? More un-American activities: Republican Senator Mitt Romney has revealed that candidate Trump has instructed the Republican House leadership not to cooperate on any immigration bill, lest President Biden get some credit for it in the forthcoming election.

On a brighter note, my alma mater law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison has commenced a pro bono suit on behalf of the city of New York against 17 bus companies that have participated in Abbott’s ugly scheme to use immigrants as political chess pieces. Abbott has loaded them onto chartered busses and dumped them in or about New York City.

The Paul, Weiss team unearthed an 1831 New York State statute making it a misdemeanor for anyone  

“to cause to be brought …any poor or indigent person from any place without this state, into any county or town within it, and there to leave… such person with intent to make such county or town chargeable with the support of such pauper… ”

The statute was upgraded in 1942 to read:

“Any person who knowingly … causes to be brought a needy person from out of the state into this state, for the purpose of making him a public charge… shall be obligated to convey such person out of the state or to support him at his own expense.”

At the beginning of this year, providing care for some 33,600 people transported by the 17 bus companies hired by the Texas governor has cost the city $708 million dollars.

Subsequent to the filing of the suit, the flow of immigrants into the city has been reduced somewhat, though it is not clear whether that is the result of the litigation or the weather. In any event, Bravo to the PW lawyers who dug up the statutes and framed the legal attack,

The question remains: if Texas does not comply with a decree from the Supreme Court of the United States, what is the likelihood the bus companies chartered by the state of Texas will readily comply with a decree from the Supreme Court of the State New York?

The federal Supremes have brought this disrespect upon themselves. They have disgraced the court by placing politics and greed above law and ethics. There is only one solution: as I have preached over and over again: if we can hold the country together until January 2025, and we have a Democratic House, Senate, and President, then we can promptly add four justices to the Supreme Court and get back on the road to the Democracy foreseen by our Founding Fathers.

I can't close this piece without repeating here my favorite line of the week.  In Heather Cox Richardson's recent piece she quotes Joyce White Vance:

"How do you explain to your kids that you’re going to give your vote in the presidential race to a man who forced his fingers into a woman’s vagina and then lied about it and about her, and exposed her to public ridicule and harm?”

A bientot.

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