Thread: Brewer to attend high court arguments on AZ law

Brewer to attend high court arguments on AZ law
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December 6, 2010

PHOENIX -- Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer plans to attend a U.S. Supreme Court hearing Wednesday in Washington for arguments on the 2006 state law that punishes employers who knowingly hire workers illegally.

Lower courts have upheld the employer sanctions law that then-Gov. Janet Napolitano signed after it was enacted by the Legislature. Business groups challenged it in court.

Brewer has previously attended federal court hearings in Phoenix and San Francisco on another Arizona immigration-related law. That measure known as SB1070 has provisions on local law enforcement and other subjects. Brewer signed that measure into law in April, but a federal judge has blocked implementation of some key provisions.

The employer sanctions law, formally named the Legal Arizona Workers Act, allows prosecution of employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants. They are required to use the federal E-Verify system to check on new hires.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been one of the staunchest supporters. He has conducted some 40 raids since the law went into effect Jan. 1, 2008.

Eleven U.S. and Arizona companies are challenging the law, claiming sanctions for employing illegal immigrants should be federal law and that the Arizona law puts an unfair burden on Arizona employers.

Arizona Solicitor General Mary O'Grady will argue before the Supreme Court.

"We obviously feel good about our position," O'Grady told The Arizona Republic. "So far, every judge who has looked at this has accepted our arguments."

Only eight justices will participate in the case. Justice Elena Kagan has recused herself because her former office, that of U.S. solicitor general, asked the high court to consider a challenge to the law.

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Somewhere on this forum I thought I had seen a thread requesting us to report on how our local Fox portrays the news but I cannot find it now.

On this issue I started yelling at the TV tonight. Our Phoenix Channel 10 Fox News interviewed an attorney named David Selden who is one of the principle attorneys argueing against the state of AZ and US citizens. The commentator presented as if this law and SB1070 are horrendous draconian laws - extremely biased - not professional journalism in any way shape or form. Everything that they said could be turned around to portray our side by a 2nd grader.

During this "interview" they also announced that the Dream Act appears to be "dead in the water" and also brought on an 80 year old woman, Dolores Huerta, who worked with Cesar Chavez who claimed that he would have supported the Dream Act and that historically there are always naysayers against the Mexican immigrants just prior to another legalization. I wish to think that this time she is wrong.

Fox Phoenix also has a headline stating "Study: Dream Act Would Lower Deficit." In the text of the article it is admitted that in the short term the Dream Act would boost revenues by $1.4 billion, but over the long term it would increase the deficit by at least $5 billion. Once again, the choice of headline is misleading, since that result was only one finding of the study - can I color it yellow? Of course the "Dreamers" are protesting outside flip-flop's office, asking him to flop again.

Anyway, Fox made me barf.

When I am at proper 'puter I will make link - cannot from here.

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http://www.alipac.us/article-5912--0-0.html

ist been reported that the newest Supreme Court justice Kagan has to e4xcuse herself from this hearing because she had already come out in opposition to the bill before she was appointed to the Bench.
therefore if it ends in a split decision of 4-4 then the original laws will stay in effect