Welcome to the Reason Round Table, your weekly refuge from the way people normally, talk about politics, brought to you by the magazine,

Free Minds and Free Markets, and whose editor-in-chief definitely will not be featured in an upcoming chart-topping

rap single. I am Matt Welch joined hopefully on video as well by Nick Gillespie, Petererman and Catherine Mangue Ward.

Sup y'all.

Howdy.

Hey Matt.

Happy Monday.

So if you thought that 2024 was going to be a relaxing year, I would like the name of your

doctor, please.

Just looking over the Drudge report this morning, he went to the blood-red headlines, which is always a good sign, and these

were the big ones in all caps. Drone Wars. McConnell calls for striking Iran and nuke warning. So welcome to this week three US

service members were killed and 34 were injured in an attack inside Jordan

on Sunday and we'll talk about that a little bit later in the program.

But first, still more chaos and more chaotic politics down at the southern border with Mexico.

I will try to bullet point as fast as I can in chronological order the developments over the past week, beginning last Monday, when the Supreme Court ordered the state of Texas by a 5-4 vote to allow federal border agents access to the border with

Mexico, presumably to cut some of the razor wire that Governor Greg Abbott down there has

installed both in the Rio Grande and near it, especially around the Eagle Pass area.

Ten days prior to that, the Texas National Guard had blocked the Border Patrol agents from accessing the river when three migrants were

dying, a mother and two kids, and there are two others who were in the river at that same time.

On Wednesday, Governor Abbott issued a statement

defying the Supreme Court's order, calling the large number of border crossings and

invasion thereby triggering a constitutional right to state self-defense.

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