Posted on 07/07/2010 5:29:18 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing Importance, unless suspended in their Operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. ---Thomas Jefferson, The United States Declaration of Independence.
Oops! So what happened to all that discrimination and violation of civil rights that the Arizona immigration law was supposed to cause? Apparently the federal government decided it was so lacking that they didn't include it in their lawsuit against the Arizona law. Jake Tapper of ABC News notes the distinct lack of a discrimination charge in the federal lawsuit:
As widely anticipated, Attorney General Eric Holder today filed a lawsuit against Arizona and Gov. Jan Brewer over the state’s immigration law. The suit seeks a preliminary injunction to stop the law from being implemented.
The court filing states that Arizona law is pre-empted by federal law and therefore violates the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution.
The filing makes no assertion that the law is discriminatory or risks being applied in a discriminatory fashion, as the president and other officials said they feared would be the case. Interestingly, this suit makes no civil rights charges against the Arizona law.
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Whatever.
They’re Leftists. It’s the filing of the suit which is important to them, not the winning of it.
Someone needs to slap the author and ask “Do you get it now?”
It’s not about “protecting minorities”, it’s about POWER. They’ve been USING “people of color” to further their own POWER.
That's true, and the left has lost most of the political arguments of the past few decades and they can only have power by importing new voters from poor nations, and by getting their political hacks on federal courts.
The swing vote that put Obama in office was the white guilt vote among those in the middle who still move back-and-forth between parties. I think most of those voters have realized the serious error they made in 2008.
The issue here has nothing to do with discrimination. The suit is a tool by the central government to claim complete jurisdiction over anything having to do with illegal immigration. Their goal is that if they succeed with this suit, it will effectively remove almost all legal roadblocks for them to declare universal amnesty for all illegals.
Yup. By claiming universal jurisdiction of all immigration policy over the states, they can dictate state policy in all kinds of areas where illegals are involved, such as education, health care, employment etc., especially in any arena that accepts federal funding. The strategy parrallels that of using the commerce clause to dictate that idividuals must purchase federal products.
The very same thing could be said of what is happening with the horrendous oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.
It's also a warning shot across the bow of all 57 states.....pass a law that the Marxist Messiah doesn't like and his personal consiglieri Holder and the mafiosi in his Justice Dept. will strike at you like a carp after a fly.
Leni
I suspect they are making as simple an argument as possible. Pre-emption. The more complicated they make the claims, the more opportunity for a defense lawyer to poke holes in it with the Constitution and the harder for any Judge to rule in favor.
Specifically on the discrimination angle, any argument about profiling or discrimination would open the door to the defense to argue illegals do not have the civil rights afforded US Citizens.
That’s what I was getting at. You just said it far better. Thanks.
But...but...but...
Precisely. This transparent Onada gamet is simply intended to pander to the hispanic vote. If the lawsuit ever reaches the USSC it will be quashed. Admittedly by a 5-4 vote, but quashed none-the-less.
All Arizona is doing is enforcing the Federal statute. The reason it is doing it is that the Feds are not. It will be interesting, given the millions of illegals currently in the US, to see how The Marxist and his band of angry commies try to spin that in front of the five Constitutionalist judges.
Concurrent with the lawsuit Onada will attempt to deem the illegals legal so as to preempt the argument. Whatever outrageous tactic they pursue to do this also will be ruled unconstitutional at the end of the day.
The power end game for Onada, his commie buddies and the “useful idiots” is November. Even if they manage to retain both the Senate and House by a majority of one or two they are still check mated. Conservative pubbies will probably unseat enough RINOs to retake the GOP. Then they can orchestrate some serious interference to Onada’s agenda. Maby even with the help of some dems who see the handwriting on the wall as far as Onada and his plan to socialize America. Those on the demrat side who are not doctrinaire Marxists will resort to enlightened self intetrest to retain their cushy legislative jobs.
Holder and Obama know that, that is why they could not add it to the suit.
Ping!
That point was made in an article I read this morning - you’re quite right.
So the federal government wants murderers to murder and rapists to rape before keeping them out of the country. That's like Pelosi wanting to pass healthcare in order find out what's in it.
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