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Culture War Roundup for the week of January 8, 2024

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How long will it take to have a case like this run through the system? Who’s bringing the lawsuits? The optics are very much in Abbot’s favor here. He is going to be sued by the federal government for checks notes protecting the border when the federal government decided not to. And keep in mind that Abbot’s position is extremely popular among conservatives.

The courts tend to hold the right to the intersection of leftist and rightist strictures, whereas they hold the left to no standard at all. In this case the courts will rule Abbott is wrong on the grounds of Federal authority overriding his.

It will also take months or years for something like this to get to the courts. Courts tend to work slowly, and it can always be appealed to a higher court until ScOTUS. Then the feds simply have an order telling Abbot to stop, but if he doesn’t he’s had years to dig into positions that allow him to control the situation. And that’s assuming that the feds will risk the optics of trying to forcefully remove the TNG, which almost certainly will get violent.

No, the courts can move fast with preliminary injunctions when they want. And they want far more often when it benefits the left than the right.

Texas is in the fifth circuit, which I believe is more right-leaning?

It doesn’t matter when it’s this blatant.

Yeah, you're probably right.

I guess I mostly just meant that the one-sidedness probably applies less there.

It doesn't matter that much. BOTH left- and right-leaning courts at the appeals and higher level tend to favor the left over the right, though the left more so than the right.