Posted on 10/06/2010 7:28:01 PM PDT by goldendays
Jan Brewer is asking a federal court to disallow foreign governments from joining the federal lawsuit. | AP Photo Close By SCOTT WONG | 10/6/10 9:57 AM EDT Updated: 10/6/10 7:21 PM EDT
In a new twist in the fight over Arizona’s immigration law, Republican Gov. Jan Brewer on Tuesday asked a federal court to disallow foreign governments from joining the U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit to overturn the law.
The move comes in response to a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling issued Monday, allowing nearly a dozen Latin American countries — Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru and Chile — to submit friend-of-the-court briefs in Justice’s challenge to SB 1070, which Brewer signed into law in April and is considered one of the nation’s toughest immigration-enforcement measures.
“As do many citizens, I find it incredibly offensive that these foreign governments are using our court system to meddle in a domestic legal dispute and to oppose the rule of law,” the Republican governor said in a statement shortly after the state’s motion was filed Tuesday evening.
“What’s even more offensive is that this effort has been supported by the U.S. Department of Justice. American sovereignty begins in the U.S. Constitution and at the border,” she added. “I am confident the 9th Circuit will do the right thing and recognize foreign interference in U.S. legal proceedings and allow the State of Arizona to respond to their brief.”
Brewer and her supporters have said the state law is necessary because the federal government has failed to protect the border and enforce immigration laws. But the Justice Department — with strong backing from President Barack Obama — sued to block the Arizona law on constitutional grounds.
Responding to the suit, a federal judge in July put some of the most contested parts of the law on hold, including a provision that requires police officers to check the immigration status of individuals they stop for other offenses if there is “reasonable suspicion” they are in the country illegally.
Brewer, who has vowed to take the case to the Supreme Court, appealed the decision to the 9th Circuit Court, which will begin hearing arguments in San Francisco on Nov. 1, one day before the midterm elections.
The Arizona law is a top political issue nationally. Cities from San Francisco and Seattle to Baltimore have joined a friend of the court brief opposing the Arizona law, while 11 states — including Texas, Florida and Nebraska — filed an amicus brief backing the law.
In July, more than 80 Republican members of Congress signed their names to an amicus brief filed by the conservative Immigration Reform Caucus. They included Sens. Jim DeMint of South Carolina, David Vitter of Louisiana and John Barrasso of Wyoming, and Reps. Lamar Smith of Texas, Steve King of Iowa and Trent Franks of Arizona.
Brewer’s motion should resonate among conservative legal scholars worried about giving foreign legal systems a voice in American jurisprudence. These concerns are a reaction to a school of legal thought arguing that American judges should look to foreign laws and courts for assistance in interpreting the U.S. Constitution, particularly in regard to basic human rights issues. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is arguably the leading spokesperson for this approach, as noted in a 2005 New Yorker profile.
The state of Arizona’s motion could also strike a chord with those on the right who are convinced that President Barack Obama (and Bill Clinton before him) want to make U.S. laws subordinate to international courts, particularly the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Under Clinton, the United States signed a treaty to join the court weeks before leaving office in January 2001, though the Senate never ratified his action. Months later, President George W. Bush pulled the United States out of the treaty, saying he worried foreign governments would try to prosecute U.S. troops for alleged war crimes.
Me too. God protect her and give her victory.
We should stop letting the local Senator nominate judges for the Circuit Courts and District Courts. There is no reason to continue the practice. When you see that G. Bush appointed the judge..it doesn’t mean that he selected the judge. Often the judge was selected by a RAT.
Meanwhile, O’Reilly was sucking up to Janet Napolitano over the “record number” of deportations.
Of course, he didn’t ask her about the “backdoor amnesty” policy of dismissing thousands of deportation cases.
Meanwhile, O’Reilly was sucking up to Janet Napolitano over the “record number” of deportations.
Of course, he didn’t ask her about the “backdoor amnesty” policy of dismissing thousands of deportation cases.
Hmmmm....boycott their stuff (You KNOW as a good citizen, liberals are trying to tell you you're supposed to be buying LOCAL anyway).
Start with the produce section at your supermarket....and work up to Embraer and Husqvarna.
Including the AZ senator, Juan.
Solution is simple. End foreign aid handouts to those countries piling on....in November of course.
What is her next step? Cant she call a press conference to remind everyone that the Feds are incompetant thus forcing her to take additional actions?
I do not trust the 9th Circus to do the right thing ever.
EVERY Republican candidate for every seat in Cngress should highlight this issue. Democrat candidates should be made to say whether they stand with the people of ARIZONA or with the gaggle of vile, America-hating kleptocracies south of the border. The White House and Justice Department have sided with the foreigners against America: do all Democrats agree with them? They must be made to declare on this.
[chooseascreennamepat] How can these foreign countries have standing .....
The countries listed are just shills. The real movers are big countries not even party .... China, Russia, others. Countries and plutocratic NGO's and international Communists that want to see the U.S. partitioned, broken up, dissolving into civil war, vaporized.
The Latin countries are just tools in this contest. Notice the lack of symmetry, for instance: We don't even have a way to reach, much less penalize, the front-line "states" ..... and much less again the real movers.
We need a President and Congress who will be willing to do what it takes to turn around the damage wittingly done by Obama and his Communist coconspirators and their overseas backers, and then go abroad and seriously hurt some people for trying to screw with our country and our sovereignty.
I mean, hurt some people.
GWB did us no favors by giving the Clinton administraton a pass on the damage they did and not pushing to investigate and prosecute the people responsible. They were just emboldened to pusth the envelope even farther the next chance they got.
Time to correct that oversight, isn't it?
Never mind the statute of limitations. Do the investigations, and if necessary let a mob chase Clinton out of the country, even if he's carefully got Congress to shorten the statute of limitations on espionage and treason to 18 months. Dig it all out, make him pay. Make them all pay. Roll Web Hubbell over, make him talk. Make Jamie Gorelick talk, John Huang, Vernon Jordan, all of them.
Then Obama.
And go after Ayers and Dohrn for murder.
There’s also that matter of the people that were subpoened to testify about the Clinton’s fundraising that were allowed to go back to China before they got the chance, and the Chinese government was unable to locate any of them.
This is going to be the conflict that will shape the up and coming revolution. Many people have confused the “tea party” movement with being a revolution. It is nothing more than a grievance in the form of protest.
The states are gearing up to battle the regime. The federal regime has taken a stand to battle the states legally. Watch this case closely. It reveals the government’s intent to use force if necessary. They’ve made it top priority to protect and harbor foreign criminals, enemies of the U.S. They are completely seditious in their ways.
It will be very revealing to see just how corrupt the Supreme Court has become and how much of an enema the government requires.Arizona needs our full support. Let’s give it to them and every other state on the roll call to fight back legally, monetarily, and with able bodies if necessary.
It is outrageous to permit foreign countries sue us for our domestic policy. These countries should be cut off from any aid from us.
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