Posted on 03/09/2015 12:32:05 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
WASHINGTON – Sen. Ted Cruz said Monday that the Supreme Court probably made the wrong decision in 1982 when it ruled that public schools must provide free education to children who are in the country illegally.
“There’s a strong argument to say that it was [a mistake],” Cruz told a conservative radio host in Des Moines during a campaign visit to Iowa.
WHO host Jan Mickelson, an immigration hardliner, peppered Cruz with questions about Plyler v. Doe, a Texas case in which the justices ruled 5-4 that states must provide public education for students in the country illegally. Jim Plyler was the school superintendent in Tyler, and Doe referred to families living and working there when Texas cut funding for students living in the country illegally.
Mickelson argued that states should now defy the court and ignore the precedent, and prodded Cruz to embrace the idea.
The senator, a top student at Harvard Law School and former clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist, stepped carefully. But he agreed that the court got it wrong.
“Plyler v. Doe as a legal matter is certainly binding Supreme Court precedent,” Cruz said. “You can have a theoretical argument about the role of the Supreme Court. But I do think there is value in the principle of stare decisis, which is a Latin term for things which are decided. There is value in legal precedent.”
That said, he added, the court probably had no constitutional basis for forcing states to educate children in the country illegally.
“There is a very strong argument that the 14th Amendment doesn’t require that,” Cruz said.
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“Now, if Scott Walker did not have a Republican Legislature, he would not have any of the accomplishments he has so far. ALL of his success is dependent on having a Legislature that will provide him bills that he can sign. “
Funny how nobody wants to talk about this.
BTTT
I don't call him a great leader now, too many unknown unknowns to make that jump.
Ronald Reagan's greatest problem was not the Democrats but the GOPe traitors that undermined him at every opportunity. It is much easier for a friend to stab you in the back than it is for an enemy.
If Obama is allowed to continue importing democrats as the new majority nothing else will matter and that is not open for debate.
Yes it does.
I opposed Reagan's amnesty from the start, and I oppose amnesty now. It is wrong for many reasons, including rewarding breaking of our laws.
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