Posted on 02/06/2024 7:55:48 AM PST by Red Badger
Conservatives have attacked a provision of the new border security bill that would only allow legal challenges to be made in Washington D.C.
The bill would strip the power of Texas and other states to challenge some of the its provisions in their local federal court.
Conservative commentators were quick to denounce the provision, contained on page 221 of the bill. Bill Shipley, who was a federal prosecutor for over 20 years, decried the its court provisions on X, formerly Twitter, on Sunday.
"This would prevent plaintiffs - like the State of Texas - from filing suit in Texas federal courts. This is corrupt," he wrote.
After outlining the provisions under which immigrants can seek judicial review of a deportation order, the bill states:
"The United States District Court for the District of Columbia shall have sole and original jurisdiction to hear challenges, whether constitutional or otherwise, to the validity of this section or any written policy directive, written policy guideline, written procedure, or the implementation thereof."
The right of judicial review for illegal immigrants about to be deported has proved controversial.
In 2022, a Louisiana federal judge blocked the Biden administration from ending Title 42, a pandemic-related border restriction that allows for the immediate expulsion of asylum-seekers and other migrants.
Reacting to the latest provisions in the border security bill, conservative writer and self-style "deportation scientist" Mike Howell wrote on X that the bill "puts far left DC district court in charge."
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You really have to wonder whether it’s deliberate or what kind of weak idiots the republicans are that they agreed to such things as this when they are negotiating.
If you want my opinion, first it’s deliberate and second they are a bunch of lazy dopes and they let their staffs write these things and they don’t even pay attention to it.
The union has usurped too much power from the states already. We demand restoration.
Thanks for pointing this one out.
Well I guess the republicans had to give up some additional concessions because after all they already achieved only 2 million more coming in this year /s and even that isn’t a limit because the controls that are supposed to click in at that point are never going to happen.
The whole bill is a dinner call to illegals to come running.
I have no words suitable for FR.
Oh, isn’t that nice, assigning ALL jurisdiction to the DC Circuit, composed of four Obama nominees and three Biden nominees.
How convenient.
I guess they don’t like the 5th Circuit, which has jurisdiction over Texas, with its 12 Republican nominees (6 Trump) and 5 Democrat nominees.
We are not electing our bestest and brightest............
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia shall have sole and original jurisdiction to hear challenges,
This is Absolute Confirmation that Article 3, section 2 of the US Constitution PROHIBITS inferior courts from hearing ANYTHING when a State is a Party to the Action, all Previous rulings against ANY State should be Ignored since the Supreme Court did not hear the Case in Original Jurisdiction.
In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction.
If you want my opinion, first it’s deliberate and second they are a bunch of lazy dopes and they let their staffs write these things and they don’t even pay attention to it.
My opinion too except the evidence suggests that there’s only one party in Washington DC, they want all the power and all your money.
The more we learn the worse it is. This thing is a nightmare. Damn the GOPe for trying to shove down our throats.
10th Amendment!!!
Unconstitutional!!
Title 42 expired in 2023 and Biden wouldn’t save it. In response, in May, the House passed HR2, a very comprehensive border package “Save the Border Act of 2023”....Includes a wall...and everything you could ask for to stop this invasion.
“You really have to wonder whether it’s deliberate or what kind of weak idiots the republicans are that they agreed to such things as this when they are negotiating.”
Remember when Paul Ryan slipped provisions specifically prohibiting using provisions of the Secure Fence Act to build a border wall into the 2016 Omnibus? And then later specifically prohibiting using concrete to build any border wall.
These are all intentional. They are desperate to get their insidious provisions into law. Because once Trump is president again, illegal immigration is OVER!
[[The bill would strip the power of Texas and other states to challenge some of the its provisions in their local federal court. ]]
Which of course the republicants would be required to obey, and would be prosecuted to the hilt if they didnt- but democrats get to ignore all laws already on the books that they don’t like and never suffer any consequences for it. There are laws AGAINST illegals storming our borders, but the left ignore those laws. BUT, if a republican ignores a demand by the left- tH3y can expect to be punished to the hilt
What a complete and utter sellout.
I am by no means an expert in the unique relationship between Texas and the federal government, based on the specifics of the annexation of the Republic of Texas into the US. It would seem to me, however, that of all the states, the one state that the Feds could not tell what to do would be Texas because of the state’s unique relationship, including the ability to secede and become its own republic again.
The bill is unconstitutional on its face.
Limiting redress to ONE court for the entire US?
That’s not how a Republic works!
It seems to me that the provision is unconstitutional on its face.
Denying a state and it’s citizens due process is blatantly unconstitutional..............
Border Security Bill MY ASS. Somebody needs to look up the definition of the word “Security”. Open This bill is a poke in the butt of the AMERICAN PEOPLE by the commie RAT bass turds. It should be called Joe Pedo’s Murder Rape and Pillage Bill of Aiding and Abetting for Foreigner Invaders.
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