How Red States Steer Biden’s Policies Into a Wall of Trump Judges
The political opponents of any sitting president know to go “forum shopping” for courts and judges that are favorable to their cause.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (left) and Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Photographer: Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc/Corbis/Getty Images
President Joe Biden’s immigration agenda has faced one setback after another from court challenges led by Republican states. In short order, judges blocked Biden from suspending deportations for 100 days; making fewer arrests of unauthorized migrants; and ending a controversial Department of Homeland Security program that has forced almost 70,000 asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for months and even years.
It’s no accident that all those rulings were issued by judges appointed by former President Donald Trump—whose policies Biden was trying to reverse.