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To: freedumb2003

why not just get a supreme court ruling on it.


12 posted on 05/21/2010 5:36:02 PM PDT by edcoil (RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE.)
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To: edcoil
“why not just get a supreme court ruling on it.”

My non-lawyer understanding is that the Supremes can't make “advisory opinions” or in other words opinions on requrest on matters that are not the result of a genuine cause or controversy brought by one party against another.

If AZ were to pass such an anti-anchor baby statute it would almost surely provoke a genuine case that could reach the Supremes.

42 posted on 05/21/2010 7:24:02 PM PDT by Seizethecarp
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