... this time in SCOTUS. The blog has been covering the State AG case before Judge Williams where she has blocked enforcement of a state immigration law and also held the State AG in contempt. The 11th Circuit refused to dissolve the injunction, and today the Supreme Court did the same thing. From the NY Times:
The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to revive an aggressive Florida immigration law that had been blocked by lower courts. The law would let state officials prosecute unauthorized migrants who enter the state.
The court’s one-sentence order gave no reasons, which is typical when the justices act on emergency applications. There were no noted dissents.
The court’s ruling is not the last word in the case, which is pending in an appeals court and may return to the justices. The litigation to date has been contentious, with a trial judge holding the state’s attorney general in contempt for what she said was defiance of her ruling.
The Supreme Court has given the Trump administration great leeway in pursuing its immigration agenda.
In a series of orders ruling on emergency application from the administration, the justices have allowed it to lift protections for hundreds of thousands of people who had been granted temporary protected status or humanitarian parole, allowing them to be deported.
The court also allowed the administration to pursue so-called third-country deportations, sending migrants to places other than their home nations without an opportunity to argue that they would face the risk of torture.
Wednesday’s order suggested that the court may take a different view of states’ power over immigration.
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Litigation is always “contentious.” Here the state’s behavior is “contemptuous.”
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