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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (74394)	6/27/2012 2:13:18 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Re: "The Supreme Court voted 8-0 Monday to uphold a key provision of Arizona's S.B. 1070 that requires state troopers to check the immigration status of people suspected of being in the U.S. illegally after they've been caught committing other crimes." Two things real quickly: 1) The Supremes did not 'uphold' that one section, what they did was say (unanimously, as the article pointed out) that they could NOT RULE on it yet because it had not yet come into EFFECT. (I.e., it had never been applied, it has been stayed by the courts all along. Never was implemented. No 'victim' with standing to complain yet.) So they kicked it back downstairs... once it goes into effect now (and someone complains about it as they inevitably will) that one remaining provision will wind it's way back through the state and federal courts all on it's on and perhaps eventually make it's way back to be considered and decided on on it's OWN MERITS by the Supremes one day. But for now they punted on it, they did not consider it 'ripe' for ruling yet. 2) ALL 50 states have had the legal right to phone Washington to ask about any arrestee's immigration status ever since Bill Clinton signed that into law in 1994, committing the federal government to answer those inquiries. So, (since the Supreme Court just said that states CAN'T ASK that until and unless they have someone under arrest already for some other crime), it doesn't sound like anything has changed at all.