Biden Agenda Draws Same Legal Challenges Used Against Trump (1)

A Texas ruling temporarily blocking President Joe Biden’s plan to pause deportations of undocumented immigrants highlights the risk the new administration’s agenda faces from a potential flood of Republican-led lawsuits.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, on Tuesday won a 14-day nationwide restraining order against the initiative when U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton ruled the freeze potentially violates federal immigration law.

Greg Abbott

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The judge, a Donald Trump appointee, also ruled the pause may have been rolled out without a reasonable explanation, making it “arbitrary and capricious.”

That’s the same legal standard -- part of the Administrative Procedure Act ...