The Supreme Court on July 9 declined to overturn a lower court’s order blocking enforcement of a Florida law that makes it a state crime for an illegal immigrant to enter Florida.
The new decision in Uthmeier v. Florida Immigrant Coalition took the form of an unsigned order. The high court did not explain its decision. No justices dissented.
The justices turned away a June 17 emergency application by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier asking to overturn U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams’s order blocking state officials from enforcing the law while a legal challenge remains pending in the lower courts….