Posted on 05/27/2026 9:45:44 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin
Justice Clarence Thomas delivered a scathing dissent Tuesday as the Supreme Court refused to let Florida sue California and Washington over their lawless practice of handing out commercial driver’s licenses to illegal aliens who cannot read English road signs.
The Court denied Florida’s motion for leave to file a bill of complaint in the original jurisdiction case, leaving the state with “nowhere else to bring” its claims, Thomas wrote. He was joined by Justice Samuel Alito.
This decision comes after the horrific August 12, 2025, crash on the Florida Turnpike. Illegal alien Harjinder Singh, an Indian national who entered the U.S. illegally through the Mexican border, obtained CDLs from both California and Washington despite failing English proficiency tests at least ten times in Washington and once in California.
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Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration testing after the crash confirmed Singh could not correctly answer most verbal questions and identified only one out of four highway signs.
Thomas did not mince words:
“An illegal alien who cannot read English road signs cannot drive an 80,000-pound tractor-trailer.” ... Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier brought the original jurisdiction suit arguing the blue states’ sanctuary policies and refusal to check immigration status or English proficiency created a public nuisance and violated federal preemption. Iowa and 16 other states backed Florida’s effort.
The Supreme Court turned it down without comment.
Thomas blasted the abdication:
“This Court declines to even hear Florida’s claims, even though it has nowhere else to bring them.”
He reiterated that the Constitution gives the Supreme Court exclusive original jurisdiction over controversies between states — and that the Court has no business inventing discretion to dodge these cases. If states cannot bring these disputes here, they have no judicial forum at all.
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Can you sue the Supremes without a biologist?
As a I.S. citizen who travels the roads in medi-vans,I thank the SCOTUS, for making me paranoid to travel while attending to my medical needs, with all these non-citizen drivers being given carte blanche in their operating motor vehicles.
I worry about the day he and Alito go.
Can Florida outlaw any CDL from California on their roads? I don’t see any other way to address it?
“An illegal alien who cannot read English road signs cannot drive an 80,000-pound tractor-trailer.”
Can Florida subsidize individual lawsuits between Florida residents and those states and take a portion of the proceeds? Could be profitable.
I thought SCOTUS determined that just about anything impacts interstate commerce...
Seems to be a reasonable question for the court.
Will have to go the longer route of a other Circuit...
Or FL stops every truck at the border and inspects.
I work part time at a Wisconsin truck stop and the amount of drivers who cant speak (or barely speak) English is alot more than people realize. Many turd world drivers are also very arrogant and demanding. An accident waiting to happen. Something definitely needs to be done.
The USSC denied Florida’s motion to file a bill of complaint,
<><>wrt the lawless practice of handing out CDL’s to illegals.
<><>decision comes after the horrific 2025 crash on the Florida Turnpike.
<><>Harjinder Singh, an Indian national, came here illegally thru the Mexican border,
<><>and had CDLs from both California and Washington
<><>yet failed states’ English proficiency tests at least ten times.
It’s more than common sense. The only venue for State to State disputes is the SCOTUS. This is one of their primary reasons for existence.
This is also the second time, in my lifetime, that they have refused to hear a state on state dispute. The first was the Texas suing other states for them violating their own election laws:
This is the second such event by the SCOTUS. The question should be, if States can give illigals operating liscences without due process, where can be go for compensation of such potentially catastrophic failures?
it’s required by federal law/regulation
I was wondering how this could stand.
Illegal aliens could not get drivers licenses in California until Gil Cedillo finally got enough of his countrymen in to the legislature that they were able to overturn it.
It was considered unthinkable for decades. Cedillo was called “One Bill Gil”. He thinks only of Mexico, Mexicans and When Can We Take Over Calipornia and Ruin It.
This is what precipitated the Real ID act. California’s drivers licenses are now considered worthless as a form of ID: you can use a scribbled piece of paper from the Mexican Consulate to get one!
And the rest of the States are supposed to let these Orks come barreling in driving a beat up Freightliner overloaded at 85MPH?
Stopping every out of state truck at the Florida border for inspection appears to be the long Swamp game the Supreme Coup Court wants to have happen.
may of us english speaking/reading drivers were forced out of the industry because pay kept going down and the drivers you deal with were willing to take the offered pay.
that is the ONLY reason they are here. They are cheaper than a driver like me with 1 million accident free miles on his butt.
Roberts. The Dems good buddy strikes again.
Cognizant eyes up to 15,000 layoffs, India set to bear the brunt
The American Bazaar ^ | May 6th, 2026 | Shubhangi Chowdhury
FR Posted on 5/27/2026, 7:31:49 AM by Cronos
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While Cognizant is hdq’ed in the US, most of its employees are based in India, where over 250,000 people make up the company’s largest workforce hub out of a global total of more than 357,000.
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Florida could easily create another, and unavoidable, trip to SCOTUS over the Commerce Clause
Florida police can simply check the immigration and English proficiency status of non-domicile CDLs issued by California or Washington they find operating in their state.
If Momar Singh from India is found to not be a legal resident, nor unable to pass a simple English test, he, his truck, and the goods on it - should be impounded by Florida.
The industry will quickly notice, as will CA and WA leftist AGs. Another SCOTUS case will quickly arise.
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