Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer
submitted Thursday an appeal
to a federal judge to lift a temporary
suspension of key parts of a controversial
immigration law.
Brewer's office said
it asked the Federal Court of Appeals
of the Ninth District in San Francisco to
initiate an expedited appeals process and
to begin hearings for SB 1070 by
mid-September.
Just hours before it was to take effect,
U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton on
Wednesday suspended the law's most
severe measures.
"Illegal immigration
is an ongoing crisis that
the state of Arizona did not
create and the federal government
has refused to fix it," Brewer said in
a statement.
In Mexico City,
former Mexican Foreign Affairs
Secretary Rosario Green Macías called
on President Felipe Calderón to request the
International Court of Justice in the Hague to
permanently overturn SB 1070.
But Green lamented
that Bolton upheld some
aspects that went into law Thursday -
according to the Washington Post, the judge
did leave in place a penalty for anyone who
transports or harbors illegal immigrants or
encourages illegal entry into Arizona, and
upheld requirements that mandate that state
officials cooperate with federal authorities
to remove illegal immigrants
http://thenews.com.mx/articulo/appeals-begin-as-az-law-underway-10730
The United States Constitution
made Congress one of three branches
of the American system of government
with specific, enumerated responsibilities.
Recent history in that body has blurred
constitutional distinctions and, in some ways,
virtually undone the intent of the Founders.
At minimum, elected representatives
owe constituents their judgment.
It is unacceptable
that the only judgment
many in Congress have applied
to legislation is that they need not
read bills before voting on them.
This shows very poor judgment,
indeed, but it is typical of members
who allow and even encourage unknown
and unaccountable staff members and lobbyists
to write and review legislation and, occasionally,
broker their votes.
Congressional Democrats,
most of whom voted for the Stimulus Bill,
are rattled by the failure of their massive bill
to provide jobs.
Only those Democrats
who didn't read the bill (i.e., all of them)
are surprised.
America has lost millions of jobs
since the stimulus was passed, many
of them from the trades they promised
would be stimulated by the bill.
Instead, the bill rolled back
welfare reform as we know it,
papered over the failures of progressive
governance in states and municipalities and
rewarded dozens of Democratic interest groups
at the expense of current and future generations
of American taxpayers.
The Democrats may pay
a steep price for their malfeasance in November
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/07/redundant_by_practice_not_by_d.html
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