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June 23, 2017      6:15 PM

As Trump DOJ officially backs Texas in SB4 fight, both sides gird for court battle coming Monday

MALDEF fires back that DOJ has “no greater authority to interpret the law than anybody else… they’re just taking the opposite position than we are.”

Only a few days before the federal court in San Antonio will take up the SB 4 lawsuit filed by multiple cities against the state of Texas, Governor Greg Abbott and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a “Statement of Interest” announcing they would be siding with Texas.

“The Department primarily argues that SB 4 is not preempted by the Supremacy Clause, is not inconsistent with the Tenth Amendment, and it does not violate the Fourth Amendment,” the statement reads.

By Lyanne A. Guarecuco

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