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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 27, 2019

Despite Gov. Bill Lee’s consent to continue refugee resettlement in Tennessee and several losses in federal court, Republican legislative leaders say they will continue to push a lawsuit challenging constitutionality of the federal resettlement program, the Daily Memphian reports. House Speaker Cameron Sexton and Lt. Gov. Randy McNally are prepared to move ahead with a suit authorized by the state legislature in 2016. Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery has declined to take the case so it is being handled by the Thomas More Law Center. The suit has lost at three levels in federal court, including two defeats at the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. The lawmakers are hoping the U.S. Supreme Court will consider it.