Posted on 06/23/2023 6:18:48 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
It’s the same excuse why all the PDJT lawsuits on voter fraud were thrown out, no evidence examined.
Unless you can show how it directly affected YOU, you ‘lack standing’ to complain.
Of course this is absurd. It’s just an excuse. In 2020, PDJT, by any statistical measure, the vote was flawed. There were dozens of problems.
In this case, drugs, crime, trafficking, etc., are all real consequences of illegal immigration. They result in a direct impact on peoples’ lives.
I’m so tired of this childishness and foolishness.
So did the three Trump justices.
Thank you NoName...
“With all due respect ought-six, the Supremes wrongly ignored that the word immigration doesn’t even appear in the Constitution. So the feds have no express power to make immigration laws imo.”
The problem with your argument is that Congress does, in fact, have authority over immigration, per SCOTUS, and that has been the accepted law for over over 100 years. Thus, it is a federal matter. (Just think, if immigration were left up to the 50 individual states, to create and enforce their own respective laws on something that would have a profound impact on the nation as a whole; our immigration problem would be compounded exponentially.)
Anyway, here is an article that addresses the issue.
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C18-4-2-1/ALDE_00001255/;pr
In large part Congress shirked its responsibility by delegating much of the authority of immigration to the executive branch of government.
I get where you are coming from (and your screen name would seem to confirm that). But the fact is that Congress is federal, as is the executive.
The link returned a “page not found” error.
So far, the people in this thread who have replied to my original post have argued that federal government has the constitutional power to regulate immigration have not only not referenced a Supreme Court case to justify their stance, but have also ignored that the word immigration is not in the Constitution.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
So the Supreme Court's "no standing" reply to the states who were challenging federal immigration policy was arguably the best politically correct response that post-FDR era, institutionally indoctrinated justices could come up with imo.
“The link returned a ‘page not found’ error.”
Funny, it pulled up for me.
Try again:
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C18-4-2-1/ALDE_00001255/
How do the various States lack standing? This is as un- Constitutional as it gets. I must see which Justices voted which way.
Only Justice Samuel Alito dissented from the court’s 8-1 judgment. He must be the most conservative on the Supreme Court.
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