Thread: Justice Department poised to challenge Arizona law

Originally Posted by topsecret10

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

It doesn't matter if it is really legal or not.
It's what the judge rules.
It's going to be up to one judge after another for years.
187 was written knowing that it would be challenged in court too.
A different judge, a different time, a different place, it could have been ruled legal.

The real outcome of proposition 187 very well could have been different If the appeal were allowed to make It to the Supreme Court. When Grey Davis took office he dropped the appeal. Imagine that,a Democrat dropping an appeal of a law that could very well cost their party millions of votes In the future... TS

Davis didn't want the state to have to pay the cost of taking it thru the courts, and he didn't want it to be found legal.

No matter what the first judge rules on the Arizona law, the loosing side will refile in another court the next day, state, federal and then Supreme Court. And someone has to pay for the lawyers and courts every step of the way.

"The California Federal District court eventually ruled that Proposition 187, along with its 834b provision, was unconstitutional. The reasoning behind the ruling was the law was preempted by federal law. While 834b remains in the California Penal code to this day, it is not enforceable.

However, subsequent to 834 b, Federal immigration 8 USC 1373 was passed. This law gives local police the discretion to communicate with ICE to check someone's immigration status."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/ ... code-834b/

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-200477-penal.html+code

Originally Posted by azwreath

. . . We heard how many groups and individuals threatening to file suit the second it was signed into law? How many had attorneys standing by at courthouses just waiting for word to come down?

And how many of these suits ever materialized? Hardly a one and two which were, were almost immediately dropped.

"Goddard said he noted that five privately filed lawsuits already are pending in federal court to challenge the law."

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