Expedient? Doubtful. More like pragmatic. There is no doubt that the Arizona law would have been overturned the instant it was tested in the courts. Her decision was pragmatic in that it spared Arizona the loses it would have incurred in a losing battle. Quite simply, don’t waste your strength fighting hopeless causes.
While fighting for principle make make you feel good, you have to pick the fights you can win and that will mean something if you win them. If you want to protect religious freedom in cases like this, you must change the US Constitution.
I don’t understand how the US Constitution must be changed:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
The Constitution doesn’t require changing. Activist judges/justices require impeachment and removal.
This law made me nervous. There's just too much opportunity for it being used for "separate but equal" in the name of religion.
I had another thought this morning. If Brewer had signed the law, it would've ended up challenged and probably oterturned. Wouldn't the result of that overturning do religious freedom far more harm than not ever having the law would?