Texas, Alabama, Arizona, et al., Amici Curiae
Kyle D. Hawkins, Counsel of Record
Texas, Alabama, and Arizona are joined in this brief by 33 other States. Kyle D. Hawkins has served as solicitor general for the State of Texas since September 2018. The following is excerpted from the Brief for Respondent as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on November 1, 2018. Petitioner seeks to upend the principle by which a State is not precluded from enforcing its criminal laws vindicating its sovereignty because another sovereign prosecuted the individual under its criminal laws for a violation of its interests. Denying a State the ability to do so would transform the nature of sovereignty….
