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Texas Is Appealing a Ruling That Would Force State Psychiatric Hospitals to Admit Jailed Defendants Within 21 Days

Texas is fighting a federal order requiring psychiatric hospital admission within 21 days. About 1,626 people were on the waitlist in June.

Medical Daily · Aug 14

Texas fights court ruling requiring that defendants get quicker access to psychiatric hospitals

A federal judge recently ruled that Texas must give defendants who are mentally incompetent to stand trial a state hospital bed within 21 days.

The Texas Tribune · Aug 11

Trump administration drops challenge to Texas law targeting people who illegally cross the border

Senate Bill 4, the Texas law that makes illegally crossing the border a state crime, will continue to be challenged by two immigrant rights groups and El Paso County.

The Texas Tribune · Mar 19, 2025

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Secession Is Back in Style in Texas

Can't Americans all just get along? Maybe we can't—and perhaps we shouldn't have to.

Reason · Oct 13, 2024

En Banc Fifth Circuit Tells Judge Ezra to RTFM

"The case is REMANDED with instructions to vacate the preliminary injunction and for further proceedings consistent with the majority opinion of the court."

Reason · Sep 25, 2024

Judge Ezra's Worrying Behavior in the Buoy Case

Judge Ezra boasted about knowing the judges on the Fifth Circuit, being sworn into the Texas Bar by the Chief Judge's husband, and threatened to have the Deputy Solicitor General's lawyer removed from the courtroom.

Reason · Aug 8, 2024

A Reply From Judge David Ezra

Last month, I wrote a post titled "Austin Judges Shop For Cases With "Mutual Consent." I discussed at some length Judge David Ezra of the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii, who hears cases in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas by "mutual consent."…

Reason · Jun 24, 2024

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Texas’ new immigration law is blocked again

Hours after the U.S. Supreme Court had allowed Senate Bill 4 to go into effect, a federal appeals court let an earlier injunction stand. SB 4 lets Texas police arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the Texas-Mexico border.

The Texas Tribune · Mar 20, 2024

Supreme Court permits Texas police to arrest people who illegally cross the border as the SB 4 legal clash continues

The ruling allows Texas to start enforcing SB 4 while a lawsuit over its constitutionality remains pending before a federal appeals court.

The Texas Tribune · Mar 19, 2024

Texas Judge Temporarily Blocks Biden Administration From Redirecting Border Wall Funds

Congress had allocated $1.4 billion in 2020 and 2021 under then-President Donald Trump

Latin Times · Mar 14, 2024

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Extends Suspension of Texas SB4, Halting Migrant Arrests, Deportations

The suspension, which was set to expire on Wednesday, was extended through Monday (Mar. 18)

Latin Times · Mar 12, 2024

US Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Texas Immigration Law

Justice Samuel Alito issued an order on Monday, temporarily halting the law until at least March 13, following an emergency request by the Justice Department.

International Business Times · Mar 5, 2024

The Supreme Court Strikes Back: Halts Texas SB4 Law on Migrant Arrests, Deportations

The law would have gone into effect next week after an appeals court granted a stay on a rejection of the measure by a lower court

Latin Times · Mar 5, 2024

Appeals Court Set to Allow Texas Immigration Law if Supreme Court Doesn't Intervene

Should that be the case, the law would go into effect on March 9

Latin Times · Mar 4, 2024

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Latin Times · Mar 1, 2024

Trump Says He'll Resort to Local Police to Conduct Mass Deportations if Elected President

The likely Republican candidate made the statement during a visit to the border as illegal immigration is part of his campaign rhetoric

Latin Times · Feb 29, 2024

Federal Judge Blocks Texas SB4 Immigration Law, Citing Conflict with the Biden Administration

SB4, which was passed last year and signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott in December, was scheduled to take effect on March 5

Salon · Feb 29, 2024

Judge blocks Texas migrant arrest law

Senate Bill 4 was Texas’ latest attempt to deter people from crossing the border amid a surge in migration

The Texas Tribune · Feb 29, 2024

Texas law allowing police to arrest migrants suspected of being in country illegally blocked by federal judge

Senate Bill 4 was Texas’ latest attempt to deter people from crossing the Texas-Mexico border amid a surge in migration.

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The Guardian - US · Feb 29, 2024

‘There is no crisis’: Biden will find calm not chaos at Texas border visit

President will visit the well-regulated crossing at Brownsville while Trump will make dueling trip to hotspot 300 miles upstream

Texas Observer · Feb 15, 2024

Federal Judge Halts Texas Deportation Law

Senate Bill 4, the controversial state immigration law, “slaps the federal immigration law right in the face."

The Texas Tribune · Feb 15, 2024

Texas and Biden administration lawyers face off in court over new law making illegal border crossing a state crime

An Austin judge will decide whether Senate Bill 4 will go into effect on March 5. The new law allows police to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the border.

The Independent UK · Oct 5, 2023

Texas asks appeal judges to let it keep floating barrier in place on the Rio Grande

Attorneys for Texas are asking federal appeals court judges to let the state keep in place a floating barrier to block migrants from crossing the Rio Grande

Al Jazeera · Sep 6, 2023

US judge orders Texas to remove controversial border buoys from Rio Grande

The ruling is a win for the Biden administration, which sued the state over floating barriers criticised by Mexico.

The Guardian - US · Sep 6, 2023

Texas ordered to remove buoys meant to block migrants from Rio Grande River

Preliminary order issued by judge David Ezra requires the floaters to be relocated to an embankment on the state side of the river

WEKU · Sep 6, 2023

The floating border barrier in the Rio Grande must be removed, a federal judge rules

The judge gave Texas until Sept. 15 to move the barrier to shore and barred the state from placing any additional buoys or other structures in the river. Gov. Greg Abbott plans to appeal the ruling.

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