INTERACTIVE TIMELINE: From Senate Bill 4’s initial filing to the federal judge’s decision to block the ‘sanctuary cities’ law

Texas’s anti-sanctuary cities legislation will not go into effect on Friday, Sept. 1, as scheduled following a federal judge’s decision to put the law on hold. U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia issued the ruling on Wednesday, Aug. 30, less than 48 hours before the law, otherwise known as Senate Bill 4, went into effect. Garcia granted the injunction on the bill sought by a conglomerate of Texas cities and advocacy groups who claimed the law was unconstitutional. The ruling puts the law on hold until the court makes a final determination on its constitutionality. The bill, which Gov. Greg Abbott signed […]

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