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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

The Texas immigration law known as SB 4 goes into effect briefly after the Supreme Court

declines to intervene before it's blocked again by a

lower appeals court. Plus Bernie Sanders introduces a bill to create a 32 hour work

week with what he claims would be no loss of wages.

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Alicia Finley and Kim Strassal, A law last year that was passed and signed by Governor

Greg Abbott called SB4 creates a state crime for non-citizens to cross the

border from Mexico into Texas and also allow state judges to issue

orders requiring people to exit the country.

This was blocked by a district court judge who said that Texas's citing clause of the Constitution as an invasion

does not fly in this circumstance and that immigration is preempted by federal authority.

And here is where the procedural tangles began.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

issued a temporary administrative stay

to put that lower court ruling on hold while it considered the issue.

That meant the Texas law might go into effect at least for a time unless the Supreme Court

intervened, which it declined to do on Tuesday.

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