Texas Republicans trying to throw out 100,000 mostly Democratic votes in Harris County have managed to obtain the most rabidly partisan right wing judge who has forced an emergency hearing for Monday without even giving the county a chance to respond.
This guy Andrew Hanen is quite a piece of work and his behavior is more like a rabid QAnon hack and far from the impartiality required of a federal judge.
From the Wikipedia article on this guy
While on the bench, Hanen "developed a reputation as an outspoken judicial critic of the Obama administration's immigration policies". In February 2015, Hanen granted the State of Texas's motion for a nationwide preliminary injunction barring President Barack Obama from carrying out the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) program.
On May 19, 2016, while the case was awaiting decision at the Supreme Court, as a lesser alternative to entirely striking the government's pleadings, Hanen demanded that some 3,000 Department of Justice lawyers in 26 states take ethics classes, and ordered other sanctions for those who argued Texas v. United States, involving President Obama's immigration executive actions.Hanen did not explain why he extended his sanctions to attorneys who had no involvement in the case. Hanen accused Justice Department's lawyers of lying to him during arguments in the case, and barred them from appearing in his courtroom. He accused the department of "a calculated plan of unethical conduct". Hanen also ordered Attorney General Loretta Lynch to appoint someone within the department to ensure compliance with his order.
Hanen also ordered U.S. immigration officials to turn over, within weeks, the names and addresses of 50,000 people who received deferral under the expanded deferred-action initiative.The National Immigration Law Center, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Immigrants' Rights Project, and the ACLU of Texas petitioned the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to vacate the order or postpone the deadline. Separately, the Justice Department argued in a filing in the district court than Hanen's ordered sanctions "exceed the scope of [the court's] authority and unjustifiably impose irreparable injury on the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security and thousands of innocent third parties."
Even if this gets appealed the 5th Circuit has 6 Trump appointees in less than 4 years, as much as was appointed by Obama and Clinton combined in 16 years. Talk about Court packing.