The admission came during the second hearing before a federal appeals panel that will determine whether Senate Bill 4 (S.B.4) can go into effect.
law admitted to a federal appeals court on Wednesday that legislators might have gone “too far” when they crafted the bill that allows state and local authorities to arrest and deport undocumented migrants.
Texas Solicitor General Aaron Nielson argued Wednesday that local authorities would work with its federal partners if S.B.4 is implemented, seeking to downplay the sweeping powers the law could potentially give to local authorities. Chief Judge Priscilla Richman, who was nominated by George W. Bush and was a swing vote in the panel’s previous S.B.4 ruling, seemed skeptical of the lawyer’s latest explanation of the law’s scope. In the last oral arguments, Richman grilled Nielson about how the law would be interpreted by local officials—a question he could not immediately answer.The grilling is not surprising, given the panel’s previous ruling to pause S.B.4 while the lower courts debate whether it violates the Constitution.
Oldham, however, wrote in his dissent that it is unclear if S.B.4 is unconstitutional. “Never in the history of the nation has the United States achieved what they’ve achieved in this case, which is a facial invalidation of a statute that never went into effect,” Oldham said on Wednesday. “It’s an extraordinary achievement that the United States has won.
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