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Students Engaged in Advancing Texas v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas
What did the Court do?
The Court denied the request on July 6, 2026, leaving the lower-court order in place.
Emergency rulings are temporary and do not decide the underlying case.
What's being asked
Students Engaged in Advancing Texas, a Texas nonprofit, and two Texas minors ask the Supreme Court to undo the Fifth Circuit's pause. That pause put a district court's preliminary injunction (temporary court order) on hold during an appeal. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is the other side in a case about Texas Senate Bill 2420; the excerpts don't explain its subject.
What the Court did
The Court refused emergency help and denied (turned down) the request to undo the Fifth Circuit's pause of the district court's preliminary injunction. That leaves the pause in place but does not decide who wins the underlying dispute. The Court did not publish how the justices voted.
What it means
The emergency ruling is temporary and does not decide who wins the underlying case; the appeal continues in the Fifth Circuit. The docket lists no related case asking the Supreme Court to decide the main legal question, and no argument is set.
Sources
Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 25A1389. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.