Richie DeVillier ranches on the same land his great-grandfather, “Skunk” DeVillier, homesteaded in the 1920s. The family has mostly lived a quiet, humble lifestyle. But now, the ranch is at the center of a Supreme Court case weighing fundamental questions about what it means to have a Constitution.
Over the decades, the land has become synonymous with the DeVillier family. It is even located on DeVillier Road. And for an entire century, the land never flooded. Until, that is, Texas rebuilt Interstate 10, raising the surface and putting an impenetrable, three-foot-high dam along the middle of it, ostensibly to keep the south side of the road dry in heavy weather.
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