BREAKING: Judge blocks key portions of Arizona's anti-immigrant law, SB1070 UPDATED
CNN, Fox News and MSNBC are reporting that Judge Susan Bolton has blocked key portions of SB1070, Arizona's police-state immigration, from taking effect tomorrow, when the law was due to be enacted.
According to Fox's reporters, Bolton has issued an injunction blocking the state from enacting the portions of the bill that require police officers to request immigration papers and which make failure to possess immigration papers a crime.
More details shortly.
UPDATE 1: Details from AP:
The law will still take effect Thursday, but without many of the provisions that angered opponents — including sections that required officers to check a person's immigration status while enforcing other laws. The judge also put on hold a part of the law that required immigrants to carry their papers at all times, and made it illegal for undocumented workers to solicit employment in public places.
U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton put those controversial sections on hold until the courts resolve the issues.
UPDATE 2: Here's the ruling itself. Plus: The New York Times has more.
They will play to their Cletus's with this issue for the mid-term elections
I suppose this gives the homosexuals a reprieve...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
For shame, crossing borders like that just to indoctrinate us.
This morning I left a message for you on the open thread from last night about your mother's illness. I wanted to be sure you got it so please go back and check it out.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I already did. I appreciate your thoughts.
I just wanted to make sure that you didn't leave without knowing that.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I just saw that too. I'm sorry to hear about her as well. Keep thinking of all the good things she's done for you and good times you've had together.
Best of luck.
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---Southwest Airlines
You know I was just thinking. These people in Arizona are all a buzz about Mexican people just walking into "our" country and yet we have sent our military into two countries uninvited and they are blowing things up for years. Maybe the people of Iraq and Afghanistan would like to secure their borders too.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
That's pretty funny.
It would have been better
to strike the whole darn
thing but it is a start.
This might be just the start
of the case to go to the
SCOTUS.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
I'm worried about anything going to the SCOTUS with how conservative the Roberts (pro-authoritarian, pro-corporation) Court has become.
IF YOU MISSED IT... http://topics.law.cornell.edu/constitution
It's in Article 1 - Section 8 is pretty clear... deal with it..
that he will enforce SB1070 regardless of how the judge rules. This guy is a real "Law & Order" type of police officer, isn't he? He should be arrested an incarcerated in his own tent jail, pink underwear and all.
What a photo that would make.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
So, he's making his own laws?
That lunatic's been making his own law for years.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
Like the one that requires me to carry ID while riding my bicycle here in Phoenix?
It's well known that bike riders are tree hugging socialists that hate capitalism and America.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Not unexpected.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
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I've never seen change without a fire
It's not a decision, Anna. It's an injunction. Essentially a "stay" on final passage and implementation of certain parts of the law.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
that eventually the entire law can be overturned...
I've never seen change without a fire
So long as you don't hold your breath.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
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I've never seen change without a fire
. . . and unconstitutional, and will never survive, because the law is (i) void for vagueness; (ii) discriminatory; and (iii) purports to address matters already pre-empted by federal law.
It is an injunction, but the issuance of an injunction requires a finding of a likelihood of success on the merits.
it might be prudent for judge bolton to beef up her own personal security after this injunction
SCOTUS
Gesundheit!
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
The FUX report makes this out like it's so confusing and insane. Their tone, though, is immediately betrayed by what the report. Portions OK'd, portions struck down. Happens all the time.
And this is why we have a judiciary separate from the legislature. When the legislature goes too far, the judiciary rolls it back, to keep laws in line with the Constitution.
And it's not surprising that certain portions were immediately declared unconstitutional, even at this stage in the game. Oh, sure, it will be appealed, but there were parts of this bill so obviously unconstitutional on their face, it did not take a scholar to figure it out.
Best part: The idea that cops could indefinitely detain people on a reasonable suspicion about their citizenship was struck down. That's never been okay on mere reasonable suspicion. You can detain people reasonably suspected of being dangerous for a brief while, but you need probable cause if you're going to take someone into long-term custody.
By the way, now would be a chance for our president to have a "teachable moment." Come talk about how he never wanted everything struck down, and how he's happy with the ruling, and talk to people about respecting the rights of everyone. Even people here illegally have human rights, because everyone has human rights under the law. You know, the law, which the other side pays so much lip service to.
Wagers acceptable on how Obama will not do that.
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
One slant you never see on this story: we stole the entire southwest - Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona - from Mexico, and now we won't let "them" into what should be their own country.
So it sounds like the teeth of SB1070 have been temporarily removed. What are Arizona's immigrant bashers going to do in the meantime?
Cow tipping?
Chase road runners across the desert in their cars.?
Organize a group, eat gassy food together and then have a fartfest as they attempt to create their own dust devil?
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
I'm sure Fuhrerin Brewer and Gestapo Chief Arpajo are seriously pissed off that their dream of a 4th Reich may be in jeopardy. You think these extremists would have remembered what happened to the Third Reich, but no, their dogmatic ideology blinds them to fact.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
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