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twenty-two House Republicans have signed on to a motion filed in federal court requesting to be allowed to join Governor Greg Abbott in defending the Texas Republican against a federal government lawsuit alleging his 1000 feet of razor wire and floating buoys constructed of circular saw blades, designed to prevent migrants from crossing into the United States from Texas, are illegal.
They have invoked the Bible’s Book of Genesis, including Noah’s Ark, to make their case.
“In a motion filed on behalf of U.S. Rep. Jodey Arrington, R-Lubbock, and other GOP members, lawyers for the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundationhave asked to be part of the case and targeted how a key law is interpreted in it,” the Houston Chronicle reports.
The Texas Public Policy Foundation is the right-wing organization The New York Times last year profiled as “The Texas Group Waging a National Crusade Against Climate Action.”
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The buoys, deployed on the Rio Grande river, may have led to the deaths of two migrants, possibly including a child.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro of Texas called the buoys “barbaric,” and in video showed they are constructed of circular saw blades. In that video Congressman Castro also points to Governor Abbott’s razor wire fences.
Sawyer Hackett, a senior advisor to former Obama Cabinet Secretary Julián Castro, referred to the floating fences as “razor wire death trap buoys.”
“A key point to the Arrington group’s defense is whether the 1,900-mile Rio Grande should be defined as a navigable waterway despite being used by thousands of boats every year,” The Chronicle explains. “They point to a court case from 1870 that suggested that the term navigable waterway is intended to mean moving commerce from one state to another or to a different country and not just one where any small boat occasionally uses the river.”
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That’s where the Bible and Noah’s Ark come in.
“Indeed, if one takes the Book of Genesis literally, then the entire world was once navigable by boats large enough to carry significant amounts of livestock,” the proposed amicus brief reads. “Under the federal government’s theory, these anecdotes would render any structure built anywhere in Texas an obstruction to navigation subject to federal regulation.”
Governor Abbott has had a long partnership with theTexas Public Policy Foundation.
In 2016, as NCRM reported, Abbott while at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, unveiled a major policy plan toalter the U.S. Constitution, adding nine amendments,the result of which could have lead to same-sex marriage bans and anend of LGBTQ protections.
According to Congressman Arrington, the list of signatories to his amicus brief include: Rep. Jodey Arrington, Dr. Michael Burgess, Rep. August Pfluger, Rep. Brian Babin, Rep. Andy Biggs, Rep. Roger Williams, Rep. Lance Gooden, Rep. Beth Van Duyne, Rep. Jake Ellzey, Rep. Vern Buchanan, Rep.Chip Roy, Rep. Nathaniel Moran, Rep. David Rouzer, Rep. Pete Sessions,Rep. Ronny Jackson, Rep. Sam Graves,Rep. Clay Higgins, Rep. Michael Cloud, Rep. Keith Self, Rep. John Carter, Rep. Jeff Duncan, Rep. Kat Cammack.
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When Texas held its GOP and Democratic primaries on Tuesday, March 1, Rep. Van Taylor survived primary challenges from fellow Republicans who attacked him for being insufficiently MAGA — and he was scheduled to go to a runoff against former Collin CountyJudge Keith Self in May. But Taylor, Reuters reports, has dropped out of the race, admitting that he had an extramarital affair with the widow of an American man who joined the terrorist organization ISIS (Islamic State, Iraq and Syria).
The Dallas Morning News quoted Taylor as saying, “About a year ago, I made a horrible mistake that has caused deep hurt and pain among those I love most in this world. I had an affair, it was wrong, and it was the greatest failure of my life.”
The widow was named Tania Joya, a resident of Plano, Texas who is originally from the U.K. Joya married Plano native John Georgelas, who became an ISIS fighter in Syria before being killed in 2017. The affair, Joya told the Dallas Morning News, lasted from October 2020 to June 2021.
Joya also said that she contacted Suzanne Harp, one of the Republicans competing with Taylor in that primary, about her affair with the GOP congressman and hoped that she would privately persuade Taylor to drop out of the race. Instead, according to Joya, Harp sent someone to interview her and shared the information with some right-wing websites.
In MAGA circles, Taylor has been attacked as a RINO (Republican In Name Only) for voting to certify now-President Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory on January 6, 2021 and for voting in favor of a congressional panel to investigate the insurrection that occurred that day. And the congressional primary in Taylor’s district found the incumbent battling four other Republicans for the nomination.
Taylor got the most votes, but Self, who was endorsed by former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, was in second place — and the runoff election in May would have been a contest between Taylor and Self. But with Taylor having dropped out of the race, Self becomes the nominee and will be going up against a Democrat in the general election.