After weeks of protests and strained debate, Tennessee’s Republican supermajority hit pause on a bill that would have let public K12 schools deny enrollment to children without legal immigration status. But the lawmakers pushing the measure say they aren’t done.
Republicans across the country had hoped to trigger a lawsuit challenging the law that would bring the issue back to the U.S. Supreme Court, similar to how a state law in Mississippi led to the court overturning federal abortion rights in 2022.
The Supreme Court established the right to an education for all students, regardless of immigration status in a 1982 ruling in Plyler v. Doe.
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