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In his aggressive defense of Arizonas immigration law, Justice Antonin Scalia pointedly went after President Obamas recent immigration policy shift and accused him of deliberately refusing to enforce immigration statutes.
Justice Scalia wrote a 22-page barnstorming dissent against the courts 5-3 decision Monday which found major provisions of S.B. 1070 violate the Constitution. The conservative jurist accepted the premise that the federal government has supremacy on immigration, but declared that the Arizona law is in complete compliance with federal statutes.
In his point-by-point defense of the Arizona legislation, the avowed law-and-order conservative surmised that the Obama administration desperately wants to avoid upsetting foreign powers. He accused federal officials of willful blindness or deliberate inattention to the presence of illegal immigrants in Arizona.
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spanone
(135,844 posts)although he knows no shame
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)Raving lunatic. This rant goes beyond being a shameless partisan hack. Twenty-two pages of mouth-foaming rage indicates that he's batshit crazy. There has to be a way to get that kook off the court and into an appropriate facility, where the public will be safe from him and any of his subsequent actions.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)cynatnite
(31,011 posts)Adam Winkler, a constitutional law professor at UCLA, pushed back on Scalias argument.
Scalia has finally jumped the shark, Winkler told TPM. He claims to respect the founding fathers, but his dissent channels the opponents of the Constitution. Back then, opponents argued that the Constitution denied states their sovereignty by giving too much power to the federal government, as with immigration. Now Scalia echoes their complaints that states are being denied their sovereignty. States are not sovereign when it comes to powers vested in Congress, such as the authority over immigration and naturalization.
Scalia's such a douche.
Raven
(13,893 posts)my ass! What a lousy shithead!
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,460 posts)ProgressiveEconomist
(5,818 posts)with federal law? Why not just incarcerate "them" for drinking water or buying food?
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Tony's primary purpose is to use the bench of the highest court to vilify political opponents.
meow2u3
(24,764 posts)And certainly not behind the bench of the highest court in the land. He's an amoral, sociopathic monster who makes up the law as he goes along.