These federal judges are really starting to get on my nerves.
A federal judge in San Antonio on Wednesday blocked Texas from enforcing its ban on so-called sanctuary cities, questioning the constitutionality of a law that has pitted Republican state leaders against several Democratic-leaning cities.
The judge’s ruling was only temporary, and prevents the law from taking effect on Friday while a suit against it goes forward. But the decision, which Texas said it would appeal, served as a legal blow to one of the toughest state-issued immigration laws in the country and puts the brakes on a measure backed by the Trump administration that critics had called anti-Latino. The law has become so divisive that it served as the backdrop of a shoving match at the Texas Capitol between Hispanic Democratic lawmakers and their white Republican colleagues.
The judge, Orlando Luis Garcia, is a Latino. The sanctuary city ban relates to illegal immigrants, not all Latinos. However, it is clear that a substantial portion of the Latino community identifies more strongly with their tribe than with the law. Garcia is also a Bill Clinton appointee. So he clearly has ethnic and political biases, and is not acting in the best interests of America.
This isn’t the first time a federal judge has opposed policies in line with Trump’s agenda. Most notable was Derrick Kahala Watson, the Hawaiian judge – appointed by Obama–…