From the Desk of Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton:

JW Lawsuit Forces Spitzer to Abandon Plan to Issue Driver’s Licenses to Illegals

Well, that didn’t take long.

On November 14, 2007, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer abandoned his controversial and much publicized plan to issue driver’s licenses to illegal aliens just one week after Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit to stop him. According to Reuters News Service: “Spitzer said he had come to believe that the proposal would eventually be blocked either by legal challenges or by the New York legislature.â€