The Supreme Court today issued an order that temporarily allows a new Texas law to go into effect, giving state officials the authority to arrest and deport migrants who enter Texas without authorization.
The Biden administration had sued to block the law, arguing that it interfered with the federal government’s power to set immigration policy and to conduct foreign affairs. Texas rejected that position, saying it “has the sovereign right to defend itself.”
It was unclear when Texas would begin putting the law into effect. Here’s the latest from my colleagues on the ground in Texas.
Today’s order, like nearly all Supreme Court decisions on emergency applications, gave no reasoning. But Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh filed an opinion saying that they were returning the case to an appeals court, which would decide if the law should be paused while the appeal process moves forward.
The court’s three liberal members dissented. They argued that the Texas law upended the federal government’s authority and chastised the court’s conservative majority for opening the door for “further chaos and crisis in immigration enforcement.”
All the primary action is now down ballot
Today is a busy day in the primary election season. Polls were open in five states, including the political battleground of Arizona. But with the major-party presidential nominations already clinched, neither President Biden nor Donald Trump appears to be paying much attention to these contests. But it’s still worth keeping an eye on a handful of interesting down-ballot races.
Chief among them is the Republican primary for a competitive Senate seat in Ohio. The race has become a three-way battle for the chance to oppose Senator Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, in the general election. Elsewhere, two local races in the Chicago area will help gauge voters’ enthusiasm for progressive causes.
Hong Kong adopted new laws targeting criticism
Lawmakers in Hong Kong today passed sweeping new national security laws at the behest of Beijing. The legislation, known as the Article 23 laws, is expected to thwart decades of public resistance by granting the authorities even more power to crack down on opposition voices. The laws also establish penalties — including life imprisonment — for vague political crimes.
“Critics say that this could chill all criticism of China, and pose new risks for international business operations, eroding the very freedoms that had made the city an international business hub,” said my colleague Tiffany May, who covers Hong Kong.
A Goon Squad officer was sentenced to 20 years in prison
One of the six former law enforcement officers from Rankin County, Miss., who called themselves the Goon Squad, was sentenced today to 20 years in prison. Hunter Elward, a former deputy, had pleaded guilty to federal civil rights offenses for torturing and sexually assaulting two Black men, and a white man in a separate incident. The five remaining former officers will face sentencing over the next two days.
Charges against Rankin County law enforcement officers have so far been narrowly focused on these two attacks, but residents say they have been targeted with similar levels of violence for decades.
A shock to the fashion world
Dries Van Noten, the Belgian designer known for his glorious use of color, announced today that he would retire this year. It was a shock to the industry; he was still considered to be at the height of his skills.
“Dries Van Noten was one of the rare truly independent designers in fashion,” our chief fashion critic, Vanessa Friedman, told me. “From his start in 1986 he had a unique vision for clothing, one that was marked by humanity and grace. You could see it in the silhouettes, which were always easy; the colors and prints, which were both idiosyncratic and glorious; and the attitude, which put the person first, rather than the product. His clothes never presumed. But they were impossible to resist.”
An international start to the baseball season
Many of you will probably still be asleep when the 2024 M.L.B. regular season begins tomorrow morning. It should be a good game — the Los Angeles Dodgers facing the San Diego Padres — but the setting is the most interesting part.
The game will be played at the Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, where South Korea’s raucous fan culture is punctuated by fight songs, drummers and dancers. The star of the show will probably be Shohei Ohtani, the Japanese star for the Dodgers whom many South Koreans have embraced despite the tense rivalry between the two countries.
A tough class for the squeamish
Course work for high schoolers in Maysville, Mo., includes reading and algebra, but also a serious amount of blood and guts. A small town about 70 miles north of the Kansas City area, Maysville recently started a program to not just teach students about where their food comes from, but also show them.
Those who take the elective course are taught how to prep and cook chicken and deer, but it all starts with the messiest part: culling and butchering the animals. Our photographer followed students who went through the process for the first time.
Have an instructive evening.
Thanks for reading. I’ll be back tomorrow. — Matthew
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