The Hazleton Case: The People vs. the ACLU

Special to FreeRepublic ^ | 30 August 2006 | John Armor (Congressman Billybob)

[El Gato]

Wouldn't the act of enforcing a law be proof in and of itself that your were abiding by that law? I see what Hazleton is doing as reinforcing the "Law of the Land" and not "Contrary" to it at all.

That's exactly what I was trying to say. That article IV implies that states and localities have an obligation to enforce federal laws made under the Constitution.

With a screen name like 'El Gato' it's obvious you must know English better than the rest of here, so please enlighten us as to where you believe enforcement is mentioned in that passage from the Constitution.

This part:

and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby,

Judges enforce the law.

BTW, I'm of English (Harrison and Lee),German (Kunz) and European, who knows what (both my grandfathers are of unknown European ancestry, probably a lot of German in one case, but completely unknown in the other) Not a Spanish speaker in the bunch. Sorry to disappoint.

[El Gato]

There's no federal - state - local conflict present at this time.

I don't see one either. I see the ordinance as a piece of enabling legislation that enables the city to enforce the federal law, as the Art. IV section I quoted seems to imply they must.

I also see that I didn't make myself clear. I put the "unconstitutionality" line in quotes, to indicated it was a summary of the argument against the ordinances. I was not arguing that they are unconstitutional.

[bitt]

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[Robert A Cook PE]

Good, tightly written, concise analysis.

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Different topic: How can judges use such convoluted, inane "illogic" in throwing out voter ID requirements when the attackers make completely invalid claims of "preventing people (who supposedly can't afford id's) from voting" without evidence that there actually are any such people?

[HKMk23]

Thank you, Sir. On top of things, as usual.

You mention that other towns have also passed such ordinances and others are waiting in the wings to see how this goes before taking action. It occurs to me that, if every town merely contemplating such action would just DO IT, this might well grow into a wave across the country such that the ACLU would not have the resources to battle them all.

I'd LOVE to see the ACLU foundering with the tide pouring in over her gunwales and her crew scrambling for the long boats.