Posted on 06/01/2015 1:25:32 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The U.S. Supreme Court landed the final blow against an Arizona law that denied bail to immigrants who are in the country illegally and are charged with certain felonies, marking the latest in a series of state immigration policies that have since been thrown out by the courts.
The nation’s highest court on Monday rejected a bid from metro Phoenix’s top prosecutor and sheriff to reinstate the 2006 law after a lower appeals court concluded late last year that it violated civil rights by imposing punishment before trial.
While a small number of Arizona’s immigration laws have been upheld, the courts have slowly dismantled most of the other statutes that sought to draw local police into immigration enforcement.
“At this point, we can say that was a failed experiment,” said Cecillia Wang, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union who led the challenge of the law. “Like the rest of the country, Arizona should move on from that failed experiment.” …
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Pass it again
I love how the law only protects those who break it anymore. :)
It WAS a failed experiment: the concept that Arizona could pass a law that recognized illegal aliens as a flight risk a priori and thus very sensibly denied them bail. That's the part in the old John Wayne movies where the murderer "heads for the border". What was a failure about it is this: It's OK for Kevin DeLeon to make "immigration laws" in California that pass money and privileges to illegal aliens, but not OK for Arizona to make a law - which has nothing to do with immigration, but rather illegal entry - because that's the dominant meme that the Reconquista front and the Leftists keep repeating.
The notion that such laws are "un-Constitutional" would have been laughed out of the building 30 years ago.
"Ju cannot make de Eeemeegration law!" screamed the Terroristas after the passage of Prop. 187.
States make laws all the time with respect to both federal and state citizenship. Has she attacked any of the laws allowing illegal aliens to get in-state tuition at Secondary educational institutions?
She knows damn well that Plyler v. Doe only applies to primary education.
So her "logic" is ad hoc and she knows it.
She's only motivated by her visceral hatred of Whitey, and her sense of racial superiority which is aided by the skewed racialist and ethnicist reasoning of race hustlers on the 9th Circuit like Richard Paez.
What's truly interesting is why John Roberts let this pass. Supposedly Scalia, Alito and Thomas were interested in hearing the case.
And once again, the sovereign State of Arizona has its popular laws shredded by the corrupt federal judiciary.
And a victory goes to the forces of foreign invasion and violence against America.
Commies rule in an ad-hoc manner when in power. All about the rule of man versus the rule of law. And am I wrong, or is this era the one where the Supreme Court has favored the arguments of the American Communist Litigation Union the most in US history?
I don't know. But it's certainly a lot easier now as the court has been stacked in favor of them since the Warren Court.
And Arizona does not belong in the 9th Circuit which is dominated by far Left California appointees. The worst example of that is Stephen Reinhardt, the original Red Diaper baby. And the husband of Ramona Ripston, who was Executive Director of the ACLU of Southern California until her February 2011 retirement.
But never call them Corrupt.
The Political Class, including the court, is at war with the American people.
About time for Arizona & other states to ask their own legal citizens for a vote to secede from this union & this administration.
ALIENS
Fixed it.
-PJ
Fine. Shoot on sight.
At the very minimum, the Intermountain States should have their own Circuit Court. The 9th is far too large and at most should be the West Coast States.
Like the progressives have moved on from the failed welfare state experiment?
So sorry Ms Wang. We'll adapt and eventually prevail over you and your fellow leftwing night crawling racialists, anarchists, iconoclasts & general misfits.
No matter how many leftwing judges have wriggled into the system.
Well said.
That’s along the lines of what the guys over at VDare have described as “electing a new people”.
The Wall Street Journal-US Chamber of Commerce-GOP Establishment-Democrat Left have set in motion the process of replacing Anglo Saxon America with Latin America and other 3rd world peoples.
A collaborative effort by the Bushes with Obama and Clinton.
Look how easily Russia got 20% of our uranium, while we can't even open up a new power plant or refinery or pipeline!
Right now they are working on the new citizenry with no historical attachments to the Founding. After that, the rest will rapidly fall in place.
-PJ
PJ, I’m afraid you’re too late. The new Leftist government took over when the Chicago-Honolulu Choom Gang gained power in 2008. And while we could pull ourselves up from the rubble that the Kenyan prom queen has bequeathed us, we are probably doomed by the voters who put him into office twice!
The republic cannot be saved until and unless we, and those we hire to represent us, learn to tell judges to go to hell when they usurp power and violate the Constitution.
The constitution … is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please. It should be remembered as an axiom of eternal truth in politics that whatever power in any government is independent is absolute also …Thomas Jefferson’s fears about the power of the USSC becoming absolute certainly have come true, calling the Constitution a “felo de se” (suicidal) in the face of this.
Indeed. He saw how the story ends from nearly the beginning.
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