March 19, 2024 - PBS NewsHour full episode
PBS News Hour - Full Show
PBS NewsHour
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett and I'm Amna Navas on the news hour tonight. |
| 0:09.0 | An immigration ruling from the Supreme Court means Texas police can now arrest and |
| 0:14.4 | deport migrants. Experts warn of famine in Gaza as a rift opens between |
| 0:19.8 | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Biden White House. |
| 0:23.7 | And how influencers on social media are playing an outsized role in this presidential election. |
| 0:30.6 | A lot of people are persuaded daily by stuff on Tik-Tock. |
| 0:33.4 | They'll see a clip of Biden or Trump saying something, |
| 0:36.7 | and that'll change their minds. Welcome to the News Hour. The US Supreme Court has cleared the way for Texas to enforce |
| 0:56.2 | a controversial immigration law for now. The law allows state officials to arrest and deport |
| 1:01.8 | migrants suspected of crossing the border |
| 1:04.0 | illegally. The three liberal justices dissented with Justice Sonia Sotomayor |
| 1:09.0 | warning, quote, the court gives a green light to a law that will upend the longstanding federal state balance of power and so chaos. |
| 1:17.0 | Challenges to the law are not over as the justices |
| 1:23.7 | the case back to a lower court. |
| 1:23.1 | News hour, Supreme Court analyst Marsha |
| 1:25.2 | has been following the decision and joins us now, Marsha, it's great to see you. |
| 1:28.9 | So the Supreme Court will allow Texas to enforce for now |
| 1:32.1 | this contentious new law that gives local |
| 1:33.9 | police the authority to arrest migrants. How did the justices arrive at this |
| 1:39.0 | ruling? Well first of all Jeff it's it appears to be a 6-3 decision not to grant the Biden administration a temporary pause on the law taking effect. |
| 1:51.6 | The only one who wrote in the majority was Justice Barrett and she was |
| 1:54.5 | joined by Justice Kavanaugh's and her bottom line seems to be that it is premature for the Supreme |
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