Texas immigration law blocked again in eleventh-hour legal whiplash

Published March 19, 2024 11:42pm ET



In a late-night turn of events, a Texas law that allows state police to arrest illegal immigrants was blocked again by an appeals court just hours after the Supreme Court allowed the measure to go into effect.

Hours after the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to vacate a lower court stay against Texas’s Senate Bill 4, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit announced Tuesday night it would be weighing the Biden administration lawsuit against the law Wednesday morning. Ahead of oral arguments, a majority on that panel ruled to put the law on hold again as the legal process plays out.

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