Fifth Circuit Chides Judge for Quick Trial in Texas Border Case

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said it won’t overturn a district judge’s quick schedule for a trial in the US Justice Department’s challenge to Texas’s floating barriers on the southern border, even as several members of the court were highly critical of the lower court’s actions.

Senior US District Judge David Ezra, sitting by designation in the Western District of Texas, in January set a March trial date in the case, a timeline that overlaps with the appellate court taking up en banc a preliminary injunction against the state’s use of the floating barriers in the ...