Supreme Court won't let Florida enforce controversial immigration law

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5. More background.

The US District Court issued a preliminary injunction against the Florida statute. On June 17, Florida AG Uthmeier filed an application for stay pending appeal of the district court decision to the 11th Circuit and for an administrative stay pending a decision on his application for stay. It was filed with Thomas, the SCOTUS justice assigned to hear stay requests from courts in the 11th Circuit. Thomas did not act immediately; rather he waited until June 24 to set a deadline of July 2 for the other side to respond to Uthmeier's application. He could have but did not grant the stay unilaterally or order an administrative stay while the application for stay pending appeal was being considered. After additional briefing by both sides on July 5, 7, and 8, Thomas referred the matter to the entire court today, and later in the day the court issued its order denying the application.