Following a U.S. District Court ruling last week that halted Texas from enforcing its new border security measure, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals stayed the lower court’s decision—allowing the law to take effect.
The Supreme Court, however, quickly moved to halt implementation of the law until at least March 13, following an emergency request from the Department of Justice.
Texas had immediately appealed U.S. District Court Judge David Alan Ezra’s ruling Thursday in favor of the federal government.
While a panel of Fifth Circuit judges granted Texas’ request for an administrative stay, they also granted the federal government’s request to stay Texas’ enforcement of the new measure for 7 days, so that federal attorneys could appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
