On Tuesday, in response to a Paxton-led lawsuit, U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton granted a 14-day temporary restraining order against a Biden administration moratorium on deportations. President Joe Biden signed an executive order on his first day in office which gave a 100-day pause on deportation of illegal immigrants with final deportation orders. The court ruling was a fair one, and not a surprise. Neither was Paxton’s overblown victory lap. His TRO was more touchback than touchdown.
The justification for Biden’s executive order was to give the Department of Homeland Security a break to coordinate a reset of its priorities. In a memo from Acting DHS Secretary David Pekoske, the administration cited limited resources and announced plans to “coordinate a Department-wide review of policies and practices concerning immigration enforcement.”
Editorial: Abbott notes the need, yet does nothing on bail reform
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Gov. Greg Abbott has yet to endorse bail reform for those accused of nonviolent, low-level offenses. It’s impossible to reform the criminal justice system without cash bail reform in such cases.Lynda M. Gonzalez /Staff Photographer /Lynda M. Gonzalez /Staff Photographer
So often with public officials, it’s what they don’t say that proves more important than what is said.
It’s the absence of conviction, the lack of a firm commitment or stance that is the real tell, not some general acknowledgment of the obvious.
about that, but i don t know if people are buying one tweet, this is the best ten months or nine months of the past, you know senator, you are good at explaining things. i want to ask you about the jones act and it says that cargo between u.s. ports has to be carried on u.s. ships. it was waived for texas and florida, and the aftermath of the hurricanes. it has not been waived for puerto rico. senator mccain has called for it to be waived and people of puerto rico have asked for it to be waived and it has not, and we are getting different responses as to why, but bureaucracy should not get in the way of this if it can help the people of puerto rico, should it? no, it should not. the ability for the united states government to support them is a lot better, and frankly the government you look at what abbott and scott are doing, governor abbott and governor scott are doing, the