Will the State of Texas Challenge Plyler v. Doe?

This week, the nation stunned by news that the Supreme Court had voted to overturn Roe v. Wade when Politico leaked a draft of the Court’s decision.

Legal experts now wonder if the current Court would be willing to overturn other bedrock established precedent. 

The New York Times is reporting that Governor Abbot said in a interview this week that he would challenge the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision from 1982 in which the Court invalidated a Texas law that purported to allow local public school districts to deny admission to undocumented children. That case, titled Plyler v. Doe, established a constitutional right for students to attend public secondary schools regardless of their immigration status.

Tom Saenz of MALDEF is quoted responding that “I consider his comments to be a desperate dog whistle to bolster his re-election prospects.”

As we have featured on the Blog in previous posts, Texas Governor Abbot has taken other extreme steps to regulate immigration, including suggesting he will try to deport migrants, a role that is limited to the federal government under established Supreme Court precedent.

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