Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said Sunday that he is “absolutely” willing to take a legal fight involving a water barrier in the Rio Grande river to the Supreme Court if it escalates to that point.
Abbott’s statement comes days after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled 2-1 to decline the Texas governor’s request to reverse a lower court decision that had ordered the removal of the 1,000-foot-long string of buoys placed at the river in July. The court claimed the buoys could not be deployed due to the waterway being categorized as a navigable waterway; the governor argued that the waterway is “not navigable by definition” and is not used by boats for transportation means.
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“What Texas is going to be doing, and we will be seeking what’s called an unbuffed ruling by the entire…
