Posted on 05/09/2010 5:43:22 PM PDT by Libloather
Holder: Feds may sue over Arizona immigration law
By the CNN Wire Staff
May 9, 2010 2:06 p.m. EDT
Washington (CNN) -- Attorney General Eric Holder said Sunday that the Justice Department was considering a federal lawsuit against Arizona's new immigration law.
"We are considering all of our options. One possibility is filing a lawsuit," Holder told NBC's "Meet the Press." Possible grounds for the lawsuit would be whether the Arizona law could lead to civil rights violations, he said.
The recently enacted Arizona law initially allowed police to ask anyone for proof of legal U.S. residency, based solely on a police officer's suspicion that the person might be in the country illegally. Arizona lawmakers soon amended the law so that officers could check a person's status only if the person had been stopped or arrested for another reason.
Critics say the law will lead to racial profiling, while supporters say it involves no racial profiling and is needed to crack down on increasing crime involving illegal immigrants.
In Arizona, the city councils of Tucson and Flagstaff have decided to challenge the new immigration law in court.
Holder told ABC's "This Week" program that one concern about the Arizona law is that "you'll end up in a situation where people are racially profiled, and that could lead to a wedge drawn between certain communities and law enforcement, which leads to the problem of people in those communities not willing to interact with people in law enforcement, not willing to share information, not willing to be witnesses where law enforcement needs them."
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I really don’t think the Feds want this in court. This could change how immigration is handled nationwide.
Arizona bases their law specifically on the Federal law
Feds sue, saying the law leads to some civil rights violation
If the Feds lose, Arizona gets their way and the Feds look like incompetent boobs (but I repeat myself).
If the Feds win though....doesn’t that mean the current Federal immigration law would be surpassed in our system of precedent? I’m not a lawyer but it seems to me that would be a pretty bad outcome.
Thats right. The Obama Junta has a shadow cadre within the FBI. Made up of Muslim Symptahizers and intercultuarl political correctness mavins who are committed t following political correctness instead of the law.<p.
Thats fascism.
Problem is that the Hutaree judge follows law, not political correctness. Next time the FBI Obama Shadow cadre will find a judge that follows political corectness instead of law.
The more this happens, the closer to civil disorder we will get. Civil dosorder is what Obama wants....desperately.
WE MUST TAKE AWAY HIS POWER IN CONGRESS IN NOVEMBER,or our nation will descend in an eventual blood bath.
“Should be an interesting fight. The feds suing to prevent a state from doing a job the feds are supposed to do but aren’t.”
And the taxpayers paying for both side. Again.
Brewer ought to countersue Obama for not enforcing the federal law.
This is a suit that won’t happen unless the Feds have some inside dope they think guarantees they will win. Losing would be worse than leaving it alone.
He was probably justified in doing that, given that you matched a suspect's description. Glad it didn't go too far.
In the case where I was nearly killed, there had been an early morning robbery where the perp used a car that was the same color as mine. That, and the fact that the perp was a black male were the full extent of the profile.
Eric Holder is pond scum. I have more respect for Janet Reno.
I may suggest another activity that he can direct towards himself...
I see many paralells:
Hmmm... maybe AZ could use the eligibility issue as a defense here???
Watch how fast they drop charges!
Holder is Arabic for camel dung. As in, don’t step in the holder.
Holder’s fulla krap. He’s been in Arizona for over a year trying to prove up civil rights violations and hasn’t found one spit...
His bully tactics are pathetic posturing, and yes he would waste the taxpayer dollars with a frivilous lawsuit...he has no conscious doing it at all.
THe Democrats always claim to be in favor of “real democracy,” whatever that is.
From stories like this, it certainly doesn’t include any actual democracy.
I think the Az law, the critical part of it, is cut-and-paste from the Federal law. So if Holder wins, the logical extension of that is that the Fed law does not stand either.
This is, to Holder, the goal, I think. Worth the expense, from 0bama’s point of view.
I wonder if we can sue Holder for failing to do his duty and protect America’s borders? ALso, since he is a black reparationist, he should recuse himself from anything that involved Afro-Americans, white Americans (the potential payees), or sane people.
This Justice department (and O's executive branch) is not doing its job.
Who do we get to sue without having the Constitution's "commerce clause" thrown back in our faces?
And, in other "Breaking News"..., the DOJ will prohibit ICE from enforcing longstanding legal requirements that aliens carry immigration documents since that is "discriminatory" as well!
Arizona is just enforcing the laws the Feds would not enforce...
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