Posted on 07/08/2010 12:54:49 PM PDT by JoeProBono
PHOENIX (AP) -- Donations to a special fund to help Arizona pay to defend its immigration enforcement law now total roughly $500,000, with more than half of the contributions made as the federal government sued to challenge the law....
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And donations made to a state or municipality are fully tax deductible.
Nice!
Ping!
Somebody’s generous. A whole bunch of somebodies, in fact...
bump
If things turn out the way they look. This is going to be one hell of an embarrassment for Obama.
Excellent!
How soon before a Perkins Coie attorney, disguised as an independent counsel determines this fund to be illegal?
I’m definitely going to help out. They need our help!
Oh aren’t you the smart one! LOL
Shush! ;^)
the POS 0dumbo and any and all who caclled Az racist etc for this deserve more than embarrassment
BUT in reading the suit I see the Feds claim that just because there is a federal law doesn’t mean the federal government WILL enforce it and the Feds reserve the right to decide that someone illegal really isn’t
I am afraid we are f**ked
Congrats to whomever put a half million of their money where their mouth is.
Wow !
I thought it was a bunch of people donating various amounts.I donated a bit.
I am afraid we are f**ked
I'd like to see Arizona's response before I'd be willing to make that call.
hard to argue that the Feds don’t have a say in whether they choose to enforce their own laws or not
Have you read the lawsuit?
It will make you sick. among other things it says Az can’t start turning people over to the feds since that will make hte feds too busy to handle the other states
and it says the Az law has caused mexico to issue a travel warning and that hurts our foreign relations
this is on top of the 0dumbo saying the feds have the right to not follow their own laws.
I donated as well.
Are there no pro bono (no pun intended) lawyers out there willing to step up to the plate? Even in a lesser capacity?
I wouldn't put it past the rat party to slip something into an unrelated piece of legislation that will remove that deductability for the state of Arizona only.
hard to argue that the Feds don’t have a say in whether they choose to enforce their own laws or not
Except for that pesky US Constitution:
Article IV, Section 4 - Republican governmentHave you read the lawsuit?The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
No, I haven't. Reading the claims from one side in a dispute, especially absent any response from the other side, can be misleading at best.
It will make you sick.
I don't need to read it for it to make me sick.
among other things it says Az can’t start turning people over to the feds since that will make hte feds too busy to handle the other states
The feds claiming that doesn't mean that a court will accept it.
it says the Az law has caused mexico to issue a travel warning and that hurts our foreign relations
Too bad. I'd suspect that claim is likely to be considered irrelevant.
this is on top of the 0dumbo saying the feds have the right to not follow their own laws.
His claiming that doesn't make it true.
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