With an order from Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court blocked Texas from using state law enforcement to arrest illegal border crossers and impose criminal penalties up to and including deportation, authorities that are Constitutionally assigned to the federal government, NBC News reports.
The Biden Administration sought the injunction, saying Republican Governor Greg Abbott and his band of renegade conservatives have overstepped their authority by trying migrants for illegally crossing the border, a violation of international law, which is not Texas’s jurisdiction.
Alito’s order gives Texas officials until March 11th to respond, and puts a hold on enforcement of SB4 until March 13th, giving the justices on the Court time to decide their next steps, which damn well better not come before the week of April 22nd.