Illiberalism
Gilead
Migration
Fig. 1. Photograph credited to “ProtoplasmaKid,”, November 9, 2018, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
So I finally broke down and read Chris Geidner on all this. To be honest, I don’t feel I have any better understanding than I did, though he does go into this weird administrative stay shit. From the sound of it, I think he thinks the Texas law will ultimately be overturned.[1]
Devan Cole and John Fritze, “Supreme Court blocks Texas from enforcing controversial immigration law for now,” CNN, March 18, 2024, https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/18/politics/supreme-court-texas-immigration-sb4/index.html
John Fritze, “Supreme Court allows Texas to begin enforcing controversial immigration law,” CNN, March 19, 2024, https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/19/politics/supreme-court-allows-texas-to-begin-enforcing-controversial-immigration-law/index.html
Ann E. Marimow and Arelis R. Hernández, “Appeals court again blocks Texas from arresting and deporting migrants,” Washington Post, March 20, 2024, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/19/supreme-court-texas-immigration-law/
Chris Geidner, “Texas’s S.B. 4 immigration enforcement law appears likely to remain on hold for now,” Law Dork, March 20, 2024, https://www.lawdork.com/p/texass-sb-4-immigration-enforcement
Donald Trump
Coup attempt
Fig. 1. Cartoon by Ben Jennings, January 24, 2024, via the Guardian,[2] fair use.
Can we just skip ahead to the end of this story?
Devlin Barrett and Perry Stein, “‘Very, very troubling’: Judges, lawyers flummoxed by Judge Cannon,” Washington Post, March 20, 2024, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/03/20/trump-cannon-judge-pra-jury-instructions/
- [1]Chris Geidner, “Texas’s S.B. 4 immigration enforcement law appears likely to remain on hold for now,” Law Dork, March 20, 2024, https://www.lawdork.com/p/texass-sb-4-immigration-enforcement↩
- [2]Ben Jennings, “Ben Jennings on Donald Trump’s progress along the Republican nomination trail – cartoon,” Guardian, January 24, 2024, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/jan/24/ben-jennings-on-donald-trumps-progress-along-the-republican-nomination-trail-cartoon↩