Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) compared the recent Supreme Court decision permitting federal officials to cut razor-wire fencing on the Texas border with Mexico to the court’s infamous decision that upheld slavery and helped precipitate the Civil War.
The comment by Mr. Roy, who has also urged his home state to ignore the court’s order, came at a Jan. 30 meeting of the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government about the current crisis at the border. He is chairman of the subcommittee.