Posted on 08/26/2010 10:50:35 PM PDT by Libloather
Brewer appeals Arizona law ruling on illegals
Cites 'wrong legal standard'
By Stephen Dinan
The Washington Times
8:44 p.m., Thursday, August 26, 2010
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said Thursday she has asked a federal appeals court to lift a lower court's injunction and let the state's tough immigration law to go fully into effect.
"This federal judge's decision applied the wrong legal standard and ignored key provisions of federal law that empower states to enforce immigration laws," Mrs. Brewer said in a statement.
It's the latest step in a long legal struggle between Arizona and the Obama administration, which is expected to end with the Supreme Court eventually ruling on the law.
Late last month, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton issued an injunction halting key parts of the law, ruling that they infringed on the federal government's right to control immigration policy. She blocked a provision that required police to check the status of those they encountered during regular enforcement who they suspect of being in the country illegally and a provision that required immigrants to carry residency documents.
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Phoenix, AZ (AP) - Governor Jan Brewer's lawyers have filed the first brief in their appeal of a ruling that put the most controversial elements of Arizona's new immigration law on hold.
Brewer on Thursday asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to reverse the ruling U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton made last month.
The governor's lawyers say the federal government hasn't effectively enforced immigration law at the border and in the state's interior and that the state's intent in passing the law was to assist federal authorities, as Congress has encouraged.
They also say Bolton erred by accepting the federal government's speculation that the law might burden legal immigrants.
This is an excerpt.
http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/101618473.html
“Judge Bolton is still considering the full case, but Mrs. Brewer has asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to step in and reinstate the law, arguing that Arizona residents “continue to suffer every day that the federal government refuses to do its job.”
I love this woman!
I hope we get more people like her in both houses of Congress...and, eventually, the White House.
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