Little-Acorn
Well-Known Member
As usual, the law-abiding justices (this time including weathervane Kennedy) voted with the Constitution, while the others carefully ignored it and cited unconstitutional "justification" for their dissent.
This is a good start, and portends good things for when Arizona's SB1070 comes before the court in the future.
Prepare yourself for the usual screams of "RACISM!!!" from the usual hysterics unable to prove any.
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...nalizing-employers-illegal-immigrant-workers/
High Court Upholds Arizona Law Penalizing Employers Over Illegal Immigrant Workers
Published May 26, 2011
Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court has sustained Arizona's law that penalizes businesses for hiring workers who are in the United States illegally, rejecting arguments that states have no role in immigration matters.
By a 5-3 vote, the court said Thursday that federal immigration law gives states the authority to impose sanctions on employers who hire unauthorized workers.
The decision upholding the validity of the 2007 law comes as the state is appealing a ruling that blocked key components of a second, more controversial Arizona immigration enforcement law. Thursday's decision applies only to business licenses and does not signal how the high court might rule if the other law comes before it.
Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for a majority made up of Republican-appointed justices, said the Arizona's employer sanctions law "falls well within the confines of the authority Congress chose to leave to the states."
Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, all Democratic appointees, dissented. The fourth Democratic appointee, Justice Elena Kagan, did not participate in the case because she worked on it while serving as President Barack Obama's solicitor general.
The measure was signed into law in 2007 by Democrat Janet Napolitano, then the governor of Arizona and now the administration's Homeland Security secretary.
(Full text of the article can be read at the above URL)
This is a good start, and portends good things for when Arizona's SB1070 comes before the court in the future.
Prepare yourself for the usual screams of "RACISM!!!" from the usual hysterics unable to prove any.
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...nalizing-employers-illegal-immigrant-workers/
High Court Upholds Arizona Law Penalizing Employers Over Illegal Immigrant Workers
Published May 26, 2011
Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court has sustained Arizona's law that penalizes businesses for hiring workers who are in the United States illegally, rejecting arguments that states have no role in immigration matters.
By a 5-3 vote, the court said Thursday that federal immigration law gives states the authority to impose sanctions on employers who hire unauthorized workers.
The decision upholding the validity of the 2007 law comes as the state is appealing a ruling that blocked key components of a second, more controversial Arizona immigration enforcement law. Thursday's decision applies only to business licenses and does not signal how the high court might rule if the other law comes before it.
Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for a majority made up of Republican-appointed justices, said the Arizona's employer sanctions law "falls well within the confines of the authority Congress chose to leave to the states."
Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, all Democratic appointees, dissented. The fourth Democratic appointee, Justice Elena Kagan, did not participate in the case because she worked on it while serving as President Barack Obama's solicitor general.
The measure was signed into law in 2007 by Democrat Janet Napolitano, then the governor of Arizona and now the administration's Homeland Security secretary.
(Full text of the article can be read at the above URL)
