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Sonia Sotomayor: This is untenable. It cannot be the case that a state can evade federal judicial scrutiny by outsourcing the enforcement…

On the recordSeptember 2, 2021
This is untenable. It cannot be the case that a state can evade federal judicial scrutiny by outsourcing the enforcement of unconstitutional laws to its citizenry.
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Sonia Sotomayor
New York
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msnbc.com

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Sotomayor argues against the legality of the Texas law's enforcement mechanism.

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