Hmmm: Alito Extends Stay on Texas Immigration-Enforcement Law

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Tuesday extended an order blocking Texas troopers and police from arresting and jailing migrants suspected of crossing the U.S. southern border without authorization under a strict state immigration law known as SB4.

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Alito continued an administrative stay of a lower court order that had paved the way for Texas officials to enforce SB4, one of the toughest state immigration laws in U.S. history. The pause was previously going to expire on Wednesday evening. Alito on Tuesday extended it through Monday, March 18.

Ed Morrissey

A six-day stay seems appropriate for a conference with other justices on whether to grant cert immediately on the issue or remove the lower stay on the law. The Fifth Circuit has a hearing scheduled for April 3, and it may be easier to suspend the law until then rather than try to tweak the issue for three-plus weeks. 

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