The Supreme Court seemed sympathetic during oral arguments March 29 to a former Texas state trooper, who claims his former employer violated a federal anti-discrimination law for veterans by refusing to accommodate him after he was injured in the Iraq War while serving as a U.S. Army reservist. The Biden administration previously urged the court to reject the case (pdf), but switched sides during oral arguments, arguing that a Texas intermediate appellate court was wrong to strike down the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Acct (USERRA) as unconstitutional. The lower court held the cause of action created by USERRA was unconstitutional because Congress lacks the power to authorize lawsuits against nonconsenting states under its war powers. Supreme Court justices expressed skepticism of the lower court’s reasoning. Congress passed USERRA in 1994, which requires state and private employers to restore former employees returning from military service to the same position. …