Andrew Scott Hanen is a U.S. District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. 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 program. In June 2016, he made national news for related assertions and sanctions which were later withdrawn.
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Andrew Scott Hanen is a U.S. District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Hanen was born on December 10, 1953, in Elgin, Illinois, but was raised in Waco, Texas. He received a Bachelor of Arts, with honors, from Denison University in 1975, majoring in economics and political science. He received his Juris Doctor from Baylor Law School in 1978, where he graduated first in his class. He began his legal career as a briefing attorney to Joe Greenhill, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, from 1978 to 1979. In 1992, he was nominated by President George H.
W. Bush to be a United States Court Judge, but the nomination lapsed. On January 23, 2002, he was nominated by President Bush to a seat on the Southern District of Texas vacated by Filemon Vela, Sr. He was confirmed by a 97-0 vote of the United States Senate on May 9, 2002. 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 program. In June 2016, he made national news for related assertions and sanctions which were later withdrawn.
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