Judge: Buoys Trial Likely To End Up Before SCOTUS

A federal judge says the lawsuit over the placement of buoys in the Rio Grande will end up before the U.S. Supreme Court. Senior U.S. District Judge David Allan Ezra made the statement on Tuesday in a pretrial conference at the federal courthouse in Austin. Ezra will preside over the Biden administration's lawsuit against Texas and Gov. Greg Abbott for putting the buoys in the river as a deterrent to illegal immigration. The Texas attorney general's office has asked for a jury trial, but Ezra says a jury may not be necessary.