Fast Track decision means the hearing for preliminary injunction can happen any day now. It’s a short hearing usually as it just keeps everything calm until the full pleading is filed.
A full pleading can be ordered to be filed within 90 days and the response can be about 60 days and then a reply within 30 days. And there can be motions to continue (change filing deadlines for later). Then the judge can take his time to hear the case which can be over 60 days or so and then his decision can be at any time.
Usually because of other cases, these things drag on for about a year or more.
Granting a preliminary injunction takes away the emergency so the court is not going to speed up this case or interrupt other cases. So we can expect a year or more before Obama’s people have a ruling.
But then there is Abbott’s lawsuit which requests an injunction which I believe is a permanent injunction and that will stop Obama cold unless he wants to appeal it all the way to the Supreme Court. That could take years if he has no emergency. He doesn’t have an emergency here.
Okay, so based on that timeline, we’re looking at as much as 180 days.
Yeesh, I’m glad I never took up law...
I like to hear what Hostage has to say.