Austin, Texas: More and more, Texas and the Biden administration are dragging each other to court.
First it was on immigration enforcement at the US-Mexico border. Then the Texas ban on most abortions. Then this week, just days after the Justice Department urged the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the country’s most restrictive abortion law, Attorney General Merrick Garland brought another lawsuit against America’s biggest red state, this time restrictive. On the new voting rules.
President Joe Biden’s own domestic priorities are stuck despite his party controlling Congress, his administration trying to simultaneously topple the pillars of a hard-right agenda that the Texas GOP pitched over the past year Was. Doing so could boost Democrats, who are looking to win as they already face a stormy outlook in the 2022 midterm elections.
But the fight is still short for comprehensive federal legislation demanded by Democrats, and a conservative majority on the Supreme Court may eventually stand in the way.
Although justices indicated on Monday they would allow Texas abortion providers to pursue a court challenge to a controversial law that has banned most abortions in the state since September, it was unclear whether they would extend the restrictions. Will stay for now.
It seems that every damning law in the state of Texas ends up in federal court, said Democratic State Rep. Trey Martinez Fisher. Republicans control every lever of government in the state of Texas. If they want to celebrate Christmas in the month of April, they have votes to do so. But just because they have votes, doesn’t necessarily mean that.
Texas Republicans have legally defended their laws, and Governor Greg Abbott reacted to the latest lawsuit by tweeting: Bring it on.
Large states have become keen centers of resistance, depending on the party in the White House. California proudly sued the Trump administration more than 120 times. During the Obama administration, Abbott’s biggest applause was that his former job as attorney general was going into office, suing the federal government, and going home.
Even a week after Biden was sworn in, Texas eagerly resumed the role of a Democratic president’s main antagonist, suing over a 100-day moratorium on deportation. Texas has not given up since then and has rushed to challenge the Biden administration at every turn, including a lawsuit filed Friday over a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private businesses.
Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton said the Biden administration’s new vaccine mandate on private businesses is a ludicrous abuse of federal power, calling the requirement completely unconstitutional.
The Biden administration’s latest lawsuit against Texas, filed on Thursday, targets provisions of a broader GOP-backed election that ended Democrats’ months of protests, including a 38-day walkout, which The state capitol was closed over the summer.
Texas is one of at least 18 states that have implemented new voting restrictions since the 2020 election, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. The laws were part of a GOP campaign in the name of election security, partly inspired by former President Donald Trump’s claims that the election had been stolen.
The Biden administration also sued over Georgia’s new election laws. But the bigger goal remains out of reach for Democrats: new federal election laws they say are needed to counter the wave of GOP voting measures. Those efforts, however, have been unable to stave off opposition from Senate Republicans, who have labeled it a power grab.
On Monday, Supreme Court justices became less convinced that the Justice Department’s lawsuit against Texas over the abortion law should proceed. Justice Elena Kagan suggested that a decision in favor of providers would allow the court to avoid the difficult issues of federal power.
More than 100 prosecutors and former judges signed up in opposition to the law in a brief filed by the group Fair and Just Prosecution, which argued that letting the Texas law stand would allow states to create an end around federal law.
The fact that Texas means more women have been affected, said Miriam Krinsky, the group’s executive director. “But if a state had chosen to bring in this type of illegal construction, I think we would have prepared a lot of troubled people across the country to speak together.
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