Supreme Court’s Alito pauses Texas law on illegal border crossings

 

(Reuters) -U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Monday temporarily blocked a judicial decision that would let a Texas law take effect to give state officials broad powers to arrest, prosecute and order the removal of people who illegally cross the border from Mexico. Alito issued his order – requested by Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration – after the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Saturday paused a federal judge’s ruling that had blocked the Republican-

 Read More