Legal scholar Jonathan Turley has warned that Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration has the “upper hand” in the federal government’s showdown with Texas over the Southern Border.
Turley, a George Washington University law professor, weighed in on the battle during a Friday appearance on Fox News.
The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision Monday, agreed to vacate an injunction that temporarily blocked Border Patrol from cutting wire Texas had placed along the border.
The ruling does not require Texas to take any action to remove the wire fencing at the behest of the Supreme Court.
Rather, the ruling states that federal border patrol agents have the right to remove the fencing if it impedes their ability to carry out the Biden Administration’s orders.
Turley first began by arguing that the open border crisis is a “violation of the understanding between the federal government and the states,” adding the federal government has not “fulfilled its pledge.”
“The problem is that federal courts are unlikely to agree that this is the ‘invasion’ referenced in the Constitution,” Turley said.
“There’s also a reference to ‘imminent danger’ and certainly looking at hundreds of thousands of people crossing, an effectively, open border presents an imminent danger, but