1. Andrew Scott Hanen was born on December 10,1953 and is an American lawyer who serves as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
24 Facts About Andrew Hanen
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Andrew Hanen received a Bachelor of Arts, with honors, from Denison University in 1975, majoring in economics and political science.
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Andrew Hanen received his Juris Doctor from Baylor Law School in 1978.
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Andrew Hanen then worked in private practice in Houston from 1979 to 2002.
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Andrew Hanen maintained chambers in Brownsville, Texas from 2002 until 2018, when he relocated to Houston, within the Southern District.
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Andrew Hanen made national news for related assertions and sanctions which were later withdrawn.
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On May 19,2016, while the case was awaiting a decision at the Supreme Court, 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.
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Andrew Hanen did not explain why he extended his sanctions to attorneys who had no involvement in the case.
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Andrew Hanen accused Justice Department's lawyers of lying to him during arguments in the case, and barred them from appearing in his courtroom.
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Andrew Hanen accused the department of "a calculated plan of unethical conduct".
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Andrew Hanen further ordered Attorney General Loretta Lynch to appoint someone within the department to ensure compliance with his order.
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Andrew Hanen ordered US immigration officials to turn over, within weeks, the names and addresses of 50,000 people who received deferral under the expanded deferred action initiative.
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On June 7,2016, Andrew Hanen stayed his order requiring ethics courses for federal attorneys and requiring US immigration officials to turn over the names and addresses until August 22,2016.
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On July 16,2021, Andrew Hanen ruled that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was unconstitutional, and provisionally blocked approvals of all new applications nationwide while allowing the receipt of such new applications.
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On January 28,2022, Andrew Hanen blocked enforcement of Texas's anti-BDS law.
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Andrew Hanen ruled that the law violated Hassouna's First Amendment right to freedom of speech.
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On September 13,2023, Andrew Hanen again held that DACA was unlawful, and extended the ongoing injunction preventing the government from processing new applications for the program.
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Andrew Hanen declined the request, from the states challenging DACA, to order that the program be ended within two years.
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On November 2,2020, Andrew Hanen heard a suit against officeholder Chris Hollins, the Harris County Clerk, filed by Texas state representative Steve Toth and a group of Texas Republican candidates who sought to invalidate about 127,000 drive-thru votes in Harris County, Texas.
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Andrew Hanen dismissed the Republicans' lawsuit, stating they needed to prove the existence of an "evil motive" to have the ballots thrown out and he said they failed to do so.
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Andrew Hanen ruled that the plaintiffs who filed the lawsuit lacked standing and that drive-through voting could proceed on election day, but because the statute allowed for casting votes in "buildings," and he ruled that tent voting could not be included.
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Andrew Hanen's judgment retained the validity of the early drive-up votes that had been cast prior to his decision.
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Andrew Hanen's decision was appealed by the Republican plaintiffs to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, but their appeal was rejected.
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Andrew Hanen's decision was appealed by Republicans to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.