Supreme Court (6-3) allows Texas to enforce immigration law (www.nbcnews.com)

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"The court gives a green light to a law that will upend the longstanding federal-state balance of power and sow chaos," liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a dissenting opinion. Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson also objected to the decision.

The majority did not explain its reasoning.

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

I have no idea what the law is on this and how it works. But the GOP could simply close that loophole. Even if the law wasn't really constitutional - it wouldn't matter at all. The law would have been exactly designed to get the imprimatur of at least 5 GOP people in black robes to say it is constitutional. And that's that.

[-] regul@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Well, here's the thing. Supreme Court can say what it wants, but they're not the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Andrew Jackson figured this out through his intense commitment to being racist.

There will come a time in the not too distant future where a sitting president ignores a Supreme Court ruling. I'd prefer that be in service of good rather than evil.