Three Silver Linings in the Bad Arizona Court Decision
by Ken KlukowskiWednesday’s federal court decision on Arizona’s immigration law is being rightly criticized for a number of reasons. But there are three silver linings to this situation, which may result in the rule of law prevailing in the end.
On July 28, Judge Susan Bolton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona issued a preliminary injunction—meaning she stopped from going into effect—most of the key provisions in Arizona’s new law. As I’ve written previously, this law should be held constitutional because it’s not an immigration law; it doesn’t determine who can become a citizen or who can be on American soil. Instead it’s a police-power law, where Arizona says that if you’re not permitted to be in this country, then you’re trespassing if you enter Arizona, and if you have a run-in with the cops for some other reason, then those cops can ask if you’re in this country illegally.
This is not an immigration law. It’s also not racist. It’s not racial profiling. And it’s not usurping the role of the federal government (which has abysmally failed here).
Instead, it’s an employment law and property law. That authority arises from Arizona’s police power to make laws for public safety, health, and societal welfare—which the Constitution reserves to the states through the Tenth Amendment.
But as bad as the federal court’s decision is, there are three silver linings to it that could see the rule of law prevail in the end, to the benefit of everyone—including foreigners who want to work here.
First, with Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court looming, this highlights the need for judges who faithfully interpret the Constitution and federal laws according to their original meaning, without any regard for politics or policy preferences. This Arizona case will go to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Goodwin Liu, who believes in constitutional rights to healthcare and housing, and who says any judicial nominee who believes judges are bound by the words of the Constitution should be filibustered because they’re unfit for the bench—is President Obama’s nominee for the Ninth Circuit. This case highlights Liu’s radicalism, and draws the public’s attention to the extremists that the president seeks to put on the courts to rubber-stamp his agenda.
That this law has been put on hold by a federal judge is unfortunate. While Congress has overriding power to make immigration laws, states retain police power under the Tenth Amendment to make laws like Arizona’s. This case will focus America’s judicial debate on faithfulness to the Constitution and the limits of federal power, with implications for everything from Obamacare, to free speech, to gun rights.
Second, this spotlights the need for enforcement in immigration policy. America desperately needs an effective immigration policy that will fulfill our labor needs while upholding the rule of law. (Labor needs that can be met without granting citizenship.) But as Senator Jon Kyl explained, President Obama is holding border enforcement hostage to force amnesty. That’s no way to make policy, and this case focuses the frustration of the American people to secure the border first, and then we can all have a calm and thoughtful debate on how to deal with the broad questions of labor needs, citizenship, and the millions of illegals currently here.
And third, there’s a good chance that this decision will be reversed on appeal. Although the Ninth Circuit is the most liberal federal appellate court in the country (more so if Liu is confirmed), there are a number of originalist judges on that court, so depending on the judges Arizona draws for its three-judge panel, things could go well. Either way the U.S. Supreme Court likely will take this case after the Ninth Circuit reviews it, where the odds are good that Arizona’s law will be upheld.
So Wednesday was a bad day for the rule of law, but those cheering this decision may not be celebrating in the end. It reminds millions of Americans about what we expect from our government—and our courts.
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There is a fourth silver lining. The most important one.
This ruling by an activist judge, legislating from the bench, will so enrage the public that there will be a backwash this November that drains the goddamned swamp in Washington, DC.
Why do people meekly lay down? It is as if they desire defeat. A court order doesn't really mean anything. There are checks and balances to the branches and the Executive can choose to enforce or not anything they wish. You people have a very distorted view of the courts – they are really the weakest branch yet you have been convinced they have some sort of ultimate control when they don't.
I love the taste of the left's destruction.
I love the smell of it.
Smells like fear, and blood in the water.
Aw leave the sweet illegal aliens alone, they only want to come here to clean your house
OUT
Now they helping muslims sneak in and out of your homeland but also now are on our military bases,
A recent raid in Arizona is sparking fears nationwide that illegal immigrants may have infiltrated the nation's largest military intelligence-training center.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he has “deep concerns” that people in the country illegally have “managed to gain access onto an active U.S. military installation."
"This cause for concern goes well beyond the argument that people are only committing the crime of wanting to work in this country," he said at a press conference Tuesday.
Arpaio's detectives raided Phoenix-based cleaning company Valley View Building Services Tuesday in search of 25 employees suspected of identity theft and fraud. At least one of the suspects had worked at Fort Huachuca, an Army post 15 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border that serves as the largest military intelligence-training center in the country.
Five women were detained, four were suspected of being in the country illegally; the fifth is a U.S. citizen with an outstanding warrant. Authorities are still searching for other illegal immigrants said to be working for the company – particularly any others that may be working at the Army post.
We have an existing "Federal Immigration Law" Obama and our Fed Govt. need to Enforce it! If it were enforced, there would not be one Illegal Alien in the U.S. (Dems & Unions would hate that)
The Fed Govt, under Obama, needs to be held accountable for enforcing our "Fed Immig Law" and stop trying to sneak in his Socialist Comprehensive Immigration Reform which is CODE for Amnesty & ObamaCare! to all Illegals!
If Obama continues to refuse to Uphold his Oath of Office to enforce our existing "Fed Immig Law" he needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law now!
America does not want to be over-run with 30 Million Unknown Illegals. Which ones are Terrorists? which ones Murders? or Drug Cartels? What about Legal Applicants, from around the world; Engineers, Teachers, Chemists, Construction, Doctors Nurses? waiting for years, who will be productive Citizens?
Do Obama & the Unions Care? No. They want the Votes! because its the only way they can win!
Deport all Illegals, like Pres. Eisenhower, Hoover, and Truman did successfully. Let them fill out an Application and apply Legally!
Plus then there will be more jobs for our Brave Soldiers returning from war!
I disagree. Law is law, and the president and his cronies are subject to abide by law as any citizen. We are not a dictatorship yet. We can not cherry pick our laws. Either we enforce them or we are in violation and subject to prosecution. However our current administration with its cronies and trolls does seem to consider itself to be above the law. But our congress is also controlled by the same and will not call them on it. After Nov let's hope things improve.
Don't forget urine!
The courts are a CO-EQUAL branch of our govt. Not less than the Executive, not more. Our courts are empowered to determine the Constitutionality of any law enacted by the co-equal legislative branch and (eh-hem) enforced by the executive branch.
At least that's how it is supposed to work.
"America desperately needs an effective immigration policy………."
We already have an effective immigration policy in place. All the government has to do is enforce it. However, the current administration wants amnesty without border security. All that does is give us a repeat of 1987. Legislation without border security. No Way. Enforce existing law. Then we can talk.
We bow to your supreme wisdom and jurisprudence, asshat.
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States…
What part of that do you NOT understand????
Its so clear now that they do not want this border issue resolved. This was a simple on the spot yes or no situation. A "you are either with us or against us" and this judge along with the DOJ and admin have drawn the line where they stand…. they are against us. Dig into this judge folks, someone got to her, Clinton appointee or not, someone got to her the law is simple and obvious enforcing whats already on the books and offers add'l "protection/prevention".
The want the ILLEGALS here, not my words not your words its their actions that support that statement. They want them because they want the slave labor and the potential new class of voters period. I am wrong you say?! Please prove it, show me where I am wrong as to WHY we want the border wide open yet have to take our shoes and belts off to get on a plane?!
Do you think they like to be referred as slave labor? Do you thnk if they are portrayed that way they would support a law like SB1070 because it indirectly protects them from such abuse then you must Change the Narrative .
Your losing your country to the radicals, its time for a game changer through http://www.savingtherepublic.com
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States…
THIS is NOT happening! IMPEACH!!!
And gee whiz….. What's wrong with stealing social security numbers in order to lie and cheat the system. Obama does it so it must be ok.
Bolton's choices: agree to the outrageous, unlawful, anti-American demands of the hussein/holder YES-FOR-ILLEGALS regime, or have her career as a d-crat socialist federal judge destroyed. So, she caved.
BTW: bolton was appointed by "I did not have s*xual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinski" clinton. My guess is that her interview with bill was conducted in the oval office bathroom, where bill did his best work.
The President has chosen to ONLY be President to radicals, special interests, HIS bank in Chicago and the mainstream media, who have proven their submission to him for two years. He took an oath to protect the Constitution and the American people.
Obviously, he is not President to over 70% of the American people, he has obviously never balanced a checkbook, he has no knowledge of running a company or a country, and he is perfectly willing to put the rights and lives of American citizens BEHIND all foreign illegals.
I see absolutely no reason why this anti-American should remain i the White House. He represents, protects and honors no American. He doesn't belong…and it has nothing to do with his race.
To all the people who read this posting. who voted for Ross Perot because they were mad about the "Read My Lips" quote of George H. W. Bush, I say to you: This is all your fault.
It absolutely DOES matter for whom you vote for President! Here we are 18 years later still getting screwed by William Jefferson Clinton because you voted for CLINTON when you voted for Perot!
Remember today, I say it again, remember TODAY when you vote for President in 2012. IT MATTERS.
I think this will go to the Supreme Court of the USA and be 5-4 decision in favor of the AZ law. I don't expect anything from the 9th circus court.
Read much?
Most important is this is one more bell on the America wake up clock clanging on failure Federal Govt.
Gee, the nice mexicans just want to come here and make a few dollars to feed their family
Yes that is BILLIONs,
Federal and state agents have arrested nearly 100 people in a sweep of marijuana-growing operations that's netted more than $1.7 billion worth of pot in California's Sierra Nevada range.
Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims says several Mexican drug cartels are involved in the operations. She says most of the 97 people arrested are Mexican illegal aliens !
Gil Kerlikowske, who directs the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy, says agents have destroyed more than 432,000 marijuana plants during the three-week operation, which ends Friday.
Kerlikowske was in Fresno on Thursday to express support for the sweep, which involves 450 agents covering the remote stretches of Fresno, Madera and Tulare counties.
What part of that made him an officer of the court? LOL! I guess it is YOU who does not understand.
Wow did you open a can of silly.
If the Executive has the power to enforce, or not, any law. Then why do we bother with having two other branches – one to write and pass laws and one to determine if those laws are compatible with the COTUS? If every executive gets to decide what laws he or she deems worthy of enforcing, then the other two roles are rendered null and void. We may as well have a dictatorship.
Obama and this Fed Government Administration need to be prosecuted for failure to enforce our existing "Federal Immigration Law" to keep this Country Safe! They took an Oath to uphold our Fed Laws. They are refusing to do so.
That appears to be Illegal. I hope that they are prosecuted on those grounds. Perhaps using "Mandamus" provision to force the eforcement of our "Fed Immig Law" Attorneys, draw up your papers.
Olinsky's new Arizona law –Don't Ask Don't Tell.
That was on Nat Geo. The cartels smuggle in illegals who are then set up to raise isolated marijuana crops inside the US in order to pay off their debt. The cartels are effectively taking a page from the Chinese mafia with that one.
Sorry it does not matter, the last election was rigged, fixed, dead people, illegal aliens voted, Guys in military overseas were prevented from voting.
You think Acorn is quiet for no reason. Obama already knows the votes have been counted for Nov and you now have 40,000,000 mexicans ( we have as many of them here then in mexico) and he already is assured to hold power for at least 8 years.
Elections are over because people are not willing to fight for their own family as to American jobs much less spilling some blood to defend our freedom and rights.
Yep go buy your toyotas and 4 billion dollars a month to asian products.
All of this is in my back yard! Past time for a similar law in California, but it will never happen! Oh well, my house is clean!!! Continue with life. Sad days ahead.
My sense is the judge effectively punted while trying to appease her liberal masters. She likely knew the ruling was going to be appealed no matter which way she went with either AZ or the Admin pushing it right up the ladder to the Supremes. Notice that she didn't block cops from asking about a suspect's immigration status; she only blocked the requirement that they must check. A cop can still check immigration status if they feel it warranted (granted most will be intimidated by fear of lawsuit). She also left the part about Sanctuary Cities being illegal in AZ. The part that really ticks me off is the part where she blocked the crackdown on day laborers. AZ can target the employers, but they can't also target those seeking work illegally? Wtf.
If the Executive has the power to enforce, or not, any law. Then why do we bother with having two other branches – one to write and pass laws and one to determine if those laws are compatible with the COTUS?
If the courts decide what is law or not, why bother with the other two branches? Same reasoning. Could you explain what other check there is if not what I describe or do you really think the Founders created an oligarchy of judges?
Worth taking a look at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgOHOHKBEqE&pl...
They (leftists) seem to have a different view of everything, especially and including, the Constitution…
They are just words to be twisted and spun to fit their narrative…
The only avenue allowed is the same kinds of people – CFR and AIPAC has ensured that.
Needs to change his name to talkztoomuch!
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind. – Thomas Paine
The Founders didn't create one, but through the decades the court has gradually expanded its power. I do believe that the courts hold more power than they should. However, that doesn't excuse Executive power grabs either. Two wrongs do not make a right.
We were originally set up to be a nation of laws in which the laws affected all equally and were applied to all equally. That leaves no room for enforcing what one does or does not like. There either is a law that we all follow or their might as well not be one. And in this case, the Executive branch chose to ignore some laws forcing a state to take action in its own defense – something it should never have had to do because it is a clear COTUS mandate to provide for the common defense.
seen it, really cheesy
If I were in the Arizona legislature, I'd be seriously thinking of introducing a Bill of Secession. If the federal government won't enforce immigration laws, and if it won't let my state do it, then maybe it's time to separate ourselves from the country so we can protect ourselves "from all enemies, foreign and domestic."
These indeed are the times which try men's souls, as Thomas Paine so aptly wrote.
Indeed, another snippet of wisdom from Thomas Paine follows,
"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."
Nice, thank you for your contribution.
Oh come on, rejoin reality: Obama 69,456,897 McCain 59,934,814
You want people to believe that 10 MILLION dead people and illegal aliens voted for Obama? Obama won because people buy Toyotas?
Obama won because the MSM repeatedly showed only the good of Obama and only the bad of McCain. Every day. Don't get me started on what they did to Sarah Palin.
Obama won because the RNC refused to fix the problems in their primary system, such as the unconstitutional "caucus" system in Iowa, the idiots in NH allowing anyone with a pulse to vote in the Republican primary, and so on, which got us the worst possible candidate to run against a fresh face with full MSM backing.
I would die for John McCain, but his refusal to allow anyone to talk about Rev Wright, William Ayers, the "Frank" from Obama's childhood, and so on, was another reason we lost.
No sir, OUR screw-ups cost us the election, and you and others like you who want to say "they cheated so we lost" are NOT going to cost us the election in 2012. We need to recognize what WE did wrong and correct those mistakes.
Don't you wish you could have taped Ms. Bolton's calls over the past 60 days?
I figure this ends up in the Supreme Court and goes 5-4 or 4-5. Just wish it would happen sooner rather than later. Public wants a 7-2 vote, but that isn't going to happen.
Just keep this in the news until November. I would love to believe all of the angry people out there will show up, vote and overturn Congress.
Fox news alert…. The appeal to the 9th Circus has been expedited and filed….they fast tracked the filing…..we all know how the 9th will rule…….want this to get to the Supreme Pronto!
JRvette- Thanks. This is what America needs to know in order to understand the seriousness of the Illegal Alien situation. There can be no mobilization of effort without facts. This helps. It has always bothered me that that this Administration flatly refuses to enforce our existing "Fed Immigration Law" and allows Unscreened Foreigners to run wild around America with nefarious intent.
No other Country in the world allows this type of Violation of their Citizen's Rights. Even worse is the transparency of the Obama Admin. in their alliance with Mexico rather than their obligation to keep America safe! Unions handing out signs to Illegals and Latinos to get Democrat votes.That's the only transparency I see.
Concrete information such as yours IS needed by America.
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
This really isn't a good precedent for the "one fine day" when your party is no longer in power. What will you say the next time a GOP Congress or Republican president "chooses not to enforce," say, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act? This could happen as soon as next year, you know.
NOW do you see what the ramifications are?
"This is not an immigration law… …Instead, it’s an employment law and property law. That authority arises from Arizona’s police power…"
"…President Obama is holding border enforcement hostage to force amnesty…"
Okay, all the ducks are in a row except for the one that is missing:
Where is the Republican sponsored legislation to deny citizenship to anyone entering the U.S. illegally? It shouldn't preclude some other legal status from being obtainable, but must deny citizenship, and therefore the right to ever vote.
That leaves no room for enforcing what one does or does not like.
It is called prosecutorial discretion.
What party is that?
"We were originally set up to be a nation of laws in which the laws affected all equally and were applied to all equally."
Great point. I do believe we were also set up to be a nation of as few laws as possible. How long was the Obamacare bill? How long is the tax code? Ever tried reading the tax code? It was designed to be unreadable. It was designed to keep you and me ignorant and in the dark. It was designed to make us subjects and not citizens. Obamacare is another step in the same direction.
No legislation should be longer than 150 pages.
We have a Fed Administration that is allowing the Unions to stick signs in Illegal Aliens hands.
Now today we have Passport Fraud! Our Country needs to be tightened up! Obama is not keeping us safe!
This is a disgrace. No wonder Terrorists are all over America. They're coming in by smuggling through Mexico, and they're coming in on fake Visas, and Student Visas, and they never leave! We are not safe!
We do not want "Open Borders" that the Obama Admin wants with Mexico! 'Global World Order' is not our priority Mr. President. Maybe you should get another job! Lets get these Socialist/Marxists and Re-Distribute them OUT!
and take your Union bosses with you.
The U.S. Senators who have been demanding answers from the Administration about a rumored administrative amnesty have now revealed shocking memos from top Obama officials.
They show Obama Administration officials offering a detailed plan that would offer actual or de facto amnesty to millions of illegal aliens without Congress ever taking a vote.
In this way, the Administration would be able to reap the thanks of all the cheap-labor, outlaw industries relying on illegal labor, as well as the entire pro-illegal voter base.
But no Member of Congress would have a vote for amnesty on his/her record while facing elections.
A day after a federal judge ruled that the people of Arizona can't enforce immigration laws against illegal aliens, this memo shows a grand plan for the Obama Administration to ensure that most illegal aliens get work permits, keep their jobs and prevent unemployed Americans from getting the jobs instead.
Don't count on the republicans. There is no Ronald Reagan in the GOP today. The two party system is a farce to give us something to argue about and distract US while the RULING CLASS continues its assault on our liberties.
Read this article and pass it on: http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/americas...
When I see active Deportation I'll be happy. I'll be even happier if I see "round ups" like 3 other Presidents did. America was locked up and Safe in those days.
Can you read this. Impeach Obama!
Nice! Obama needs to be prosecuted for his behavior during this Illegal Immigration Crisis! For once he needs to be held accountable for his own Narcissistic action. The King needs to be toppled from his Communist Throne!
Heh. You can't call them Illegal aliens anymore. WTF!!
They must be called undocumented foreign workers!!
I like to call them I-2's for short (illegal immigrants) or I-squareds.
"Read much?"
Wow! Bam! Zing! Good one, Sinbad.
Well, he needs that Shicago thug voting base of the illegals, now doesn't he? And forget taking the burden from the state budgets that hamper most coastal states because of this. The feds will just print more money!!
It won't hold up. Muhler v. Mena. SB 1070 is not a usurpation of federal law. It merely is doing what the feds refuse to do. Follow the rule of law.
From your keyboard to God's ear, Cowboy !
Someone needs to tell all this good news to the dead and critically injured Chandler cops….ambushed this mornin in frikkin downtown Phoenix by a Mexican drug cartel. I'm sure they'll be so pleased.
THANK YOU OBAMA
THANK YOU HOLDER
THANK YOU JUDGE BARTON
THEIR BLOOD IS ON YOUR HANDS!
Oh and I just got this email……..
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USCIS Memo Details Administration's Plan to Provide Mass Amnesty Through Administrative Actions
Thursday, July 29, 2010, 2:35 PM EDT – posted on NumbersUSA
A newly revealed memo, obtained by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) who is leading the fight against amnesty, shows Obama Administration officials offering a detailed plan that would offer actual or de facto amnesty to millions of illegal aliens without Congress ever taking a vote.
The 11-page memo, drafted by Chief of Policy and Strategy for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Denise Vanison, outlines the various ways to offer a mass amnesty to the nation's 11-18 million illegal aliens through the use of administrative actions. The stated purpose of the memo is to offer "administrative relief options to promote family unity, foster economic growth, achieve significant process improvements and reduce the threat of removal for certain individuals present in the United States without authorization."
"The memo proposes 18 different ways for the Obama Administration to essentially eliminate our borders through regulatory fiat and in clear violation of the letter and the spirit of U.S. immigration laws, which Obama swore an oath to faithfully execute," said NumbersUSA's Director of Government Relations Rosemary Jenks.
The memo is an alternative plan to amnesty "in the absence of Comprehensive Immigration Reform." In addition to using deferred action and parole, which were previously identified in two separate letters drafted by Sen. Grassely and signed by 11 other Senators (read the first and second letters), the memo outlines ways that USCIS can extend benefits and protections to individuals and groups of people by lessening the standards used in "extreme hardship" cases.
Item 4 in the memo outlines ways the Obama Administration can provide amnesty for millions of illegal aliens through the "extreme hardship" provision. It would "encourage many more spouses, sons, and daughters of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents to seek relief without fear of removal. It would also increase the likelihood that such relief would be granted." Section 4 reads:
Lessen the Standard for Demonstrating "Extreme Hardship"
The Act at 212(a)(9)(B)(i)(I) and (II) renders inadmissible for 3 or 10 years individuals who have been unlawfully present in the U.S. for 180 days or one year respectively, and then depart. By statute, DHS has discretion to waive these grounds of inadmissibility for spouses, sons and daughters of U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents if the refusal to admit such individuals would result in extreme hardship to their qualifying relatives. Generally, the "extreme hardship" standard has been narrowly construed by USCIS.
To increase the number of individuals applying for waivers, and improve their chances of receiving them, CIS could issue guidance or a regulation specifying a lower evidentiary standard for "extreme hardship." This would promote family unity, and avoid the significant human and financial costs associated with waiver denial decisions born of an overly rigid standard. This revised standard would also complement expanded use of PIP as set forth in B.
In addition to lessening the standard for demonstrating "extreme hardship", the memo details many more options that "have the potential to result in meaningful immigration reform absent legislative action."
Other options include: allowing aliens in the United States under Temporary Protected Status to adjust their status to Legal Permanent Resident, extending "grace periods" to leave the country for aliens on temporary work visa, changing the distribution time line for temporary workers on the H-2B visa, and granting up to 240 additional days on applications for employment authorization when the application is filed before the work authorization expiration date.
Denise Vanison has been an immigration attorney for more than 18 years. She advised multi-national and domestic corporate clients on employment of foreign nationals in the United States, I-9 employment verification and procurement of passports, visas, green cards and U.S. citizenship.
The memo was drafted for Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas. In addition to Denise Vanison, Roxana Bacon from the Chief Councel's office, Debra Rogers from Field Operations, and Donald Neufield from Service Center Operations were also listed as authors of the memo.
You actually raise an interesting take on this and every contemporary story of,…..
courts reversing the will of the people.
Maybe if we all come to an understanding and agreement as to,………
what is the roll of a judge in our three branch form of government,…..
we can once again have what the founding fathers had intended,……..
but that would mean taking control of our elected officials.
As for me I opine that the caliber of our cadre of present day judges,…….
unfortunately is a reflection of the intellectual level of our citizenry.
Lately, we as a country, have been acting stupidly
Her ruling made no legal sense, nor did it pass standard tests.
The terms "activist judges," "judicial activism" keeps creeping out of the press.
I have always questioned why judges that are hell bent with an agenda of Constitutional usurpation, are allowed to stay on the bench and cause legal havoc. IMO, the house and senate judiciary committees should be expunging the courts of this damaging legal trash.
If congress is relying on the brainwashed garbage by the courts, of their self manufactured shield of "judicial independence," well ladies and gentlemen, that term is not to be found anywhere in the Constitution. However, impeachment is mentioned for everyone, including the folks that wear those long, black, funny, and ugly dresses.
Sure it will. Good luck with all of that.
Just heard on radio that Sheriff Joe is saying he will defy the court ruling, and continue to arrest ia's!
Have you heard this from local sources?
I use the term Criminal Invaders.
Exactly. It is just a piece of paper in the end.
I will personally volunteer to blow the DAMN (Out of it)
Sorry I have to disagree with your last sentence. I believe laws should be NO more than 75 pages, on one side, double spaced, in size 14 font on 8 1/2" x 11". After they write the bill, I also believe that they should be posted on the internet, where every one has access to read them, for
one day per 2 pages, before they can vote on them.
If someone has someting they want for margins, I am open for suggestions.
http://www.cafepress.com/politicalstckrs
Circus. Does that come with a rodent wheel, sisty?
TU ChiR……….I heard on Hannity that Sheriff Joe has said he will continue to arrest ia's !
Would it be helpful to simultaneously file suit against the Feds for the sanctuary cities? They can't have it both ways.
Love Toyotas. Better than any American piece of crap car.
America desperately needs it's current immigration policy ENFORCED! That includes rounding up ALL Criminal Invaders and shipping them back to their countries of origin. .. Mexico, Iraq, Iran, England, Canada, Indonesia, Kenya, etc., etc., etc. I don't care whose house they've been cleaning, or yard they've been mowing or what jail they've been working in http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=News&fi...
A piece of paper that let you be born FREE
For a little longer
You would become a punchline to a joke if you did that.
Rckmom, alas he will use the "ability" clause. Didn't Obama screw up his oath the first time around?
Your golden boy also had 8 years to fix all these "problems." When the righties run a somewhat decent election cycle, then maybe you might have a chance.
The Supremes are not in session until the "1st Monday in October"
I prefer William "it depends on what the definition of is, is" Jefferson "thanks for the cigar" Clinton
Don't forget about Minnesota, Missouri and Nevada
And the pendulum swings
Sheeeeuuuuttt Stomp, I can't find the silver linin' in this one, WTH?:-(
uh, CA does have a law that – just like the feds – they choose to ignore, or violate with their 'sanctuary cities'.
MyKu:
A silver lining?
That's like finding a gold brick
in your swim trunks. "Glug."
Does this mean the State of Arizona does not have to enforce all Federal Laws that the Feds are lax on?
That could be scarily interesting.
Would you rather have me or Kagan on the court?
And you're just a pile of crap.
No, but it sounds like Joe. Will get back if I hear more.
I prefer England Swings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWB1Sqsx1jo
Could we just send the plants and a continuous supply of Taco Bell tacos to the White House. Then maybe BO would have more important things to contemplate than ruining the country.
http://www.cafepress.com/politicalstckrs
Nice one. You really got me there.
Did you know that the Soviets had a Constitution?
http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/const...
Meanwhile, England does NOT.
I just walked into my kitchen, the radio had been left on from lunch-time, and I heard Hannity
say it, watching Beck now, perhaps I will hear more during Fox News break.
If JOE does this, the oRegime will try to jail him, mm mm mm, can you say s _ _ _ hit the fan?
The Constitution is the document that frees us from tyranny. It is the document that has allowed the United States to become the world's foremost economic power, military power, breadbasket and the most generous nation on Earth. The United States has delivered more good and prosperity to the world than any nation on the planet, past or present. More advances in technology, agriculture and medicine have come from the United States than any other nation, and likely more than the rest of the world combined. Anyone who would say the Constitution of the United States is "just a piece of paper" is too ignorant to be anything but a vile pile of crap who doesn't know very much about history.
Or then again, you may just be a troll. Stick around and maybe I'll nominate you for "Troll of the Week" next week.
This ties into my libertarian leanings. I agree that we need to have fewer laws. For every law that is made, a choice (also known as a freedom) is removed from the people. There are some laws that are necessary like those that punish others for removing the basic rights of another person, but many laws have grown out of the gross expansion of both the ideas of what a right should be and the ever looser interpretation of the COTUS.
As to legislative length, well, AZ effectively mirrored Federal law in less than 20 pages. Why should anything need to be longer than that, and if it is, then it should be broken into short, easily understood chunks.
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Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he's "not going to put up with any civil disobedience" when the state's new immigration law takes effect.
Arpaio says that if protesters want to block his jail, he'll put them in it.
The Arizona law, which takes effect Thursday, requires officers enforcing other laws to check a person's immigration status if they suspect the person is in the country illegally.
Arpaio told ABC's "Good Morning America" he doesn't know "what the big hype is."
He says it's "a crime to be here illegally and everyone should enforce" the law.
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/07/28...
I wouldn't necessarily count the 9th down yet. So far, they've upheld every anti-illegal measure AZ has had challenged. Several people have said today that it depends on which three judges they draw for the panel.
Sorry. Meant to type "50" pages. Although 150 pages would be reasonable compared to what they are insulting us with these days.
And really my point is more about the fact that these new bills are thousands of pages long. They are designed NOT to be read.
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