As with the health care arguments, the exchanges often went past the legal conflict over state and federal authority and into the realm of politics. And here, as ever, the conservative justices on the court showed signs of living in a Fox News cocoon. The facts on the ground—that the federal government has deported more than a million unauthorized immigrants in the past three years and net migration from Mexico has reached zero and possibly even reversed—didn’t seem to matter.
Arizona, Immigration, and the Supreme Court: A Dispatch from Foxnewsistan
Senate Democrats are making plans to force a floor vote on legislation that would invalidate Arizona’s controversial immigration statute if the Supreme Court upholds the law this summer.
Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) will announce the fallback legislation at a hearing on the Arizona law Tuesday, a day before the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in a suit to determine whether Arizona had the authority to enact the 2010 state crackdown.
The legislation would have little chance of passing in a stalemated Senate or being approved by a GOP-held House, but it would allow Democrats to push their electoral advantage with Latino voters just as the presidential campaign heats up in July.
The plan is to allow Democrats a route to express displeasure with the Arizona law if the court allows it to stand, and it would force Republicans to take a clear position on the law during the height of the presidential campaign. The immigration law is deeply unpopular with Latino voters, who could be key to the outcome of the presidential and Senate races in several Western states.
Democrats plan to force vote on Arizona immigration law if it’s upheld by court
In its second-biggest case this term, the court - fresh from hearing the Obama healthcare overhaul case - will consider on Wednesday whether a tough Arizona immigration crackdown strayed too far into the federal government’s powers.
A pro-Arizona decision would be a legal and political setback for Obama, who has criticized the state’s law and vowed to push for immigration legislation if re-elected on November 6.
A decision against Arizona would deal a blow to Romney, who has said the government should drop its challenge to the law.
U.S. Supreme Court immigration case weighs states’ powers
In the Mesa Legislative District 18 recall election against Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce, it is looking like Mr. Pearce will lose his seat in the Arizona Senate. According to exit polling political newcomer Jerry Lewis is ahead of Mr. Pearce by double digits. These exit polls are unofficial but all indications by the amount of the turn out by Mesa voters in this district it is a strong possiblity that Mr. Lewis will be the next Arizona State Senator for Mesa Legislative District 18…
Just got off phone with Jerry Lewis’ Campaign Manager Anson Clarkson that the exit polls had Jerry Lewis ahead in the 13-14 point range.
Latest exit polling shows Jerry Lewis ahead of Russell Pearce.
Pearce’s defeat would be a huge upset — and put other legislators who supported Pearce and SB 1070 (Arizona’s “Papers Please” law) on notice that Arizonans don’t want to see immigrants turned into scapegoats for the GOP.
Update: “As of 8 p.m., the results from the Maricopa County Recorder’s office indicate Lewis had a 53 percent to 45 percent lead over Pearce, with nearly 14,000 ballots counted.”
We are releasing hundreds of private intelligence bulletins, training manuals, personal email correspondence, names, phone numbers, addresses and passwords belonging to Arizona law enforcement. We are targeting AZDPS specifically because we are against SB1070 and the racial profiling anti-immigrant police state that is Arizona.
The documents classified as “law enforcement sensitive”, “not for public distribution”, and “for official use only” are primarily related to border patrol and counter-terrorism operations and describe the use of informants to infiltrate various gangs, cartels, motorcycle clubs, Nazi groups, and protest movements.
Every week we plan on releasing more classified documents and embarassing personal details of military and law enforcement in an effort not just to reveal their racist and corrupt nature but to purposefully sabotage their efforts to terrorize communities fighting an unjust “war on drugs”.
LulzSec: “CHINGA LA MIGRA BULLETIN #1 6/23/2011”
