The Biden Administration has demanded Texas authorities stop blocking federal Border Patrol agents’ full access to part of the U.S. border with Mexico in a cease and desist letter sent to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
The federal jury selection in the Rodney Guerra case is set for May 7, 2024, according to the court docket (Federal Judge Randy Crane), but what a long, strange trip this has been, to steal from an old Grateful Dead song.
After years presiding over a divorce case, in which a woman with Stage 4 breast cancer (the Respondent) is trying to get her husband (the Petitioner), a local dentist, to split community assets, per Texas Family Law, state District Court Judge Joe Ramirez (the 464th) suddenly recused himself from the case late last month. No reason given; no reason necessary, even though he’s spent more than 2.5 years presiding over this case.
Okay, granted, Hidalgo County has a population of approximately 1 million people, not counting the new arrivals, so three people injured over the New Year’s holiday by morons firing bullets into the air may not seem like a lot, but that’s only because you and I are not one of the injured. Enough to ruin anyone’s holiday.
Okay, 10 years may not sound like history in the real sense, but since I’ve now reached the age where I think in terms of decades, as in, what will the next decade portend, it still seems like a lot.
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