'Remain in Mexico' SCOTUS ruling: Texas AG Paxton vows to hold Biden admin accountable after win
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Wednesday said his state would continue to hold the Biden administration accountable, a day after the Supreme Court reinstated the Trump-era "Remain in Mexico" policy in response to a lawsuit from Texas and Missouri.
The policy, set up in 2019, was scrapped by the Biden administration as part of a sweep of moves to reverse Trump-era immigration policies. Texas and Missouri had sought (and eventually won) a preliminary injunction against the administration’s June 1 memo formally ending the policy -- arguing that the ending of the policy was in breach of the Administrative Procedures Act (APA). "It’s fundamentally important because we have a president who looked at federal law and said ‘I don’t have to follow federal law, I’m the president, I do what I want, I don't care if it’s in statute, I don't care if Congress passed it, I can do what I want, I’m the president,’" Paxton told Fox News in an interview on Wednesday. "So it’s even bigger than immigration, it’s about the Constitution, the fact that even the president is supposed to follow the law."More Related News