The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday let a Republican-backed Texas law take effect allowing state law enforcement authorities to arrest people suspected of crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, rejecting a request by President Joe Biden’s administration.

The court has a 6-3 conservative majority, and its three liberal justices dissented on Tuesday. The administration had asked the justices to freeze a judicial order allowing the Texas law to take effect while its challenge to the statute proceeds in the lower courts.

The law violates the U.S. Constitution and federal law by interfering with the U.S. government’s power to regulate immigration, the administration has argued.

    • stoly@lemmy.world
      16·
      6 months ago

      I’m sad to say that we had roughly 50 years of sensible judges. This is SCOTUS gone back to normal.

      • Omega@lemmy.world
        16·
        6 months ago

        They have repeatedly deemed that states can overrule the federal government when it’s the federal government’s jurisdiction. They have repeatedly deemed the constitution is not enforceable. They have deemed that if they can argue vagueness in wording, it is either all encompassing or entirely non-binding based on the political leanings of issue. They have taken null cases with hypothetical damages in order to make rulings. The 3 Trump appointees deemed Roe v Wade settled law before overturning it.

          • Maggoty@lemmy.world
            62·
            6 months ago

            Okay. You’re not a citizen anymore. And you no longer have any rights.

            See why rights have to extend to everyone within our borders now?

          • theherk@lemmy.world
            2·
            6 months ago

            To say nothing of RvW, do you really think the constitution doesn’t provide some rights beyond citizens? For context, check out the preamble to the Declaration of Independence. More importantly, you won’t find this delineation in the Bill of Rights. Immigrants are granted due process, as written in the 14th as “any person”. There are many protections granted to all, precisely because we believed all are equal. This is well established constitutional law.

          • Omega@lemmy.world
            11·
            6 months ago

            Funny, I didn’t even comment on immigrant rights or the validity of RvW.