Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller filed a federal ruling to prevent a U. S. agricultural program from being able to do so. But it’s not the first time Direct aid to racial and ethnic minorities, arguing that politics discriminated against those who opposed it and other white farmers.
Miller’s lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in Fort Worth, the first legal challenge to the Biden administration’s policies sponsored through America First Legal, recently founded through Stephen Miller and other senior administration officials. Trump as a conservative option of the American Civil Liberties Union. .
“When it comes to monetary aid, no matter what race or ethnicity it is,” Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump’s former senior political adviser, said Monday at Sean Spicer’s Newsmax.
Sid Miller, a conservative Republican who owns a ranch in Erath County, sued as a personal citizen, as a state official, or on behalf of the state of Texas.
Colorful and controversial, Miller has been the state’s top senior agricultural official since 2015 and was one of Trump’s first and top supporters, sometimes attending crusades and rallies against political trial and assemblies with transitional officials in 2016 to talk about a secretary of American agriculture imaginable. . .
He failed to get the job, but his lawsuit appoints the agency’s current secretary, Tom Vilsack, to request adjustments to a program under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. This initiative directs aid to a “socially disadvantaged farmer or rancher,” explained through the Department of Agriculture as African-Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, Alaskans, Asian-Americans, or Pacific Islanders, who were wounded by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“These racial exclusions are manifestly unconstitutional, and the Court will permanently order their application,” the lawsuit said. “This will announce equivalent rights under the law for all U. S. citizens and publicitate efforts to end racial discrimination, such as how to prevent discrimination in the “The foundation of race is to prevent race-based discrimination. “
The lawsuit, which seeks prestige in the action of elegance on behalf of all white farmers and ranchers excluded from the aid program, referred to U. S. District Judge Reed O’Connor, who appointed through President George W. Bush.
The O’Connor CourtRoom is a favorite destination for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s lawsuits that oppose White House Democratic policies, and the ruling on governed people who oppose the Affordable Care Act, family circle vacation benefits for same-sex couples, and rest for transgender people room policies under the Obama administration.
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This is not the first time Sid Miller has resorted to court seeking grievances.
Last year, Miller joined a failed Texas Supreme Court challenge to overturn the order of Gov. Greg Abbott who added six days of early voting before the November election as a security measure in the face of a pandemic.
You also have an ongoing lawsuit to repeal a Texas Senate rule that requires a negative COVID-19 check before it is awarded to the Senate floor, top gallery, or committee courtrooms.
Last month, Miller sued Deputy Governor Dan Patrick, a Republican colleague, and the 31 senators, arguing that the rule violates freedom of expression protections and the right to file a petition with the government.
After several adjournments, a may trial hearing is scheduled before State District Judge Jan Soifer in Austin.
Outside the courtroom, Miller also spoke openly about race-related issues that annoyed Democrats, civil rights teams, and progressive leaders, adding a “Get a Rope” comment that added to a Facebook post about the inability to fly the children of Confederate veterans. Confederate flags at a Stephenville parade in 2019.
Critics noted that lynching was a tactic of intimidation and terror that opposed racial minorities, but Miller said his comment was a joke that referred to a popular salsa ad.
In 2017, Miller criticized the six flags amusement park chain’s resolution to fly only the American flag, and called for the removal of the Confederate flag component from an activist motion seeking to disinfect US history. But it’s not the first time
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