The Department of Justice says it intends to sue Texas Gov. Greg Abbott over the use of a floating border barrier, which it says is in violation of federal law and raises humanitarian concerns.
As seriously fucked up as this situation is, I don’t see how the DOJ plans to win this. Texas has a good argument any way you look at it, thanks to Trump and his “build a wall” bullshit.
I think it’d look a little something like this: https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/22/us/border-wall-shipping-container-arizona-lawsuit/index.html
From reading that, it seems they agreed to take down the makeshift wall specifically to allow for the permanent wall to go up. I don’t think that’s a reasonable comparison to this weird floating thing Texas is doing.
I’m operating from the assumption that feds generally win disputes with states over the border in court. I’m not sure what gives Texas a hand here or is my assumption incorrect?
