not backing down. He is having none of it.
Abbott said that Biden’s failures to secure the border “imposed by Article IV, § 4 has triggered Article I, § 10, Clause 3, which reserves to this State the right of self-defense.”
… “For these reasons, I have already declared an invasion under Article I, § 10, Clause 3 to invoke Texas’s constitutional authority to defend and protect itself,” he concluded. “That authority is the supreme law of the land and supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary. The Texas National Guard, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and other Texas personnel are acting on that authority, as well as state law, to secure the Texas border.” [emphasis added]
In case you didn’t understand, he is saying that the SCOTUS ruling is null and void in Texas because it is superseded by the Constitution.
The short response from Abbott?: Your money’s no good in here.
The ball’s in your court, Feds…
UPDATE: But even so, did SCOTUS rule that Texas had to allow illegal immigration? Perhaps not. But it is a complicated legal matter.
So, at this point, there simply is not a court order in this case governing who can do what to the concertina wire. The Government is free from the restraints of any court order forbidding it to destroy the wire. But, just as the Government was legally free to continue destroying wire after the TRO was filed but not entered, Governor Abbott is likewise free to have the Texas Rangers or National Guard safeguard the wire and block the feds from destroying its property (at least until Biden federalizes the National Guard).
Basically, the SCOTUS ruling was that the Feds were no longer prohibited from cutting the razor wire. That’s pretty much it.