u.s. with concerns that the buoys violate treaties and impedes water flow. what more are you learning? reporter: this is really an escalation between the administration of texas governor greg abbott and the biden administration over this hot button political issue of immigration. the justice department threatening to sue texas for those floating barriers that have been placed in the rio grande to prevent migrants from crossing the u.s./mexico b the justice department writing the state of texas actions humanitarian concerns, present serious risks to public safety and the environment and may interfere with the federal government s ability to carry out its official duties. in this letter, the justice department cites a clause in existing law that bars preventing navigation of u.s. waters. this is such an important issue. it s separate from an ongoing
above the blue we ll hear more of tony bennett in just a bit. we want to turn to some breaking news we have tonight at the border. the justice department announcing it s prepared to sue texas governor greg abbott over a controversial new barrier aimed at keeping migrants out. priscilla thompson has more. reporter: tonight, texas governor greg abbott not backing down after the department of justice threatened to sue over a 1,000-foot-wall of buoys dividing the rio grande between mexico and eagle pass, texas. the doj firing back against the buoys that governor abbott deployed earlier this month in a letter writing, the state did not receive proper authorization for them, adding that the buoys violate federal law, raise humanitarian concerns, present serious risks to public safety, and the environment. roughly four feet in diameter, the buoys prevent anyone from climbing over them and extend at least a foot underwater with no
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and the mississippi case and the decision, it s all over. well, i think it s not all over. i would say, that s certainly right, these two are interrelated. because if there is no constitutional right to abortion, if that s the finding, then that puts the texas law in a completely different light because the federal government s argument here is that texas can t deprice women of a constitutional right without giving them the ability to challenge that in court. the question is that will leave the question in the federal case that when states do something like this, can on enforcing any law, can the federal government sue them over this? and that s an important question to be resolved but it goes well beyond the question of abortion. you know, it s very possible that the supreme court won t mississippi and to some extent texas now, are they re both certainly asking the supreme court to say, look, there is no constitutional right to abortion. roe v. wade was wrongly decided.