Supreme Court to Decide on Arizona Immigration Law

**William Gayley Simpson** · 12-12-2011

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether an aggressive Arizona statute targeting illegal immigrants interferes with federal law, entering another high-profile dispute between the Obama administration and conservative state governments.

Among other provisions intended to drive illegal immigrants from the state, the 2010 Arizona measure, known as SB 1070, requires police to arrest people they stop whom they suspect of being foreigners without authorization to reside in the U.S. Federal courts have blocked much of the Arizona measure from taking effect, agreeing with the Justice Department that it undermines federal authority over immigration.

The court is likely to hear the case by April and issue a decision before July. That i's the same time it is expected to rule on the president's 2010 health-care overhaul, which conservative activists and Republican leaders from 26 states contend exceeds federal authority.

The scheduling positions both cases for a significant role in next year's presidential and congressional elections—and could make the Supreme Court, certain to be criticized by the losers in each case, itself an issue. Four of the nine justices are in their 70s, suggesting the next president could have at least one vacancy to fill on the closely divided court.

In yet another case with political ramifications, the justices decided late Friday to rule on the deference that federal courts evaluating redistricting plans under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 should pay to state legislatures. The Republican-controlled Texas Legislature drew new maps after the 2010 census was expected to yield at least three Republican victories in the four new U.S. House seats the state gained as a result of the Census.
But the state's population gain is largely a result of burgeoning numbers of Hispanics, who have strongly favored Democrats. Civil-rights groups challenged the Legislature's maps and, ahead of the state's March primary election, a federal court in San Antonio drew new districts to serve in the interim before a final decision was rendered. Texas is one of several states with a history of discriminatory voting practices required by the Voting Rights Act to obtain federal approval before altering electoral procedures or districts.

Arizona's illegal-immigration measure, officially titled the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act, reflected growing outrage among tea-party conservatives over what they considered lax enforcement by federal immigration authorities. Similar measures were introduced in other states, including Alabama, where officials were embarrassed after executives from German and Japanese car manufacturers the state fought to bring there were arrested for failing to produce immigration papers.

More at: High Court to Decide on Arizona Immigration Law - WSJ.com

**Iconoclast** · 12-12-2011

All Patriots need to be aware of the following:

The Constitution of the United States, Article 4 Section 4

"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."

Our country is clearly being invaded, there are between 10,000,000 and 40,000,000 illegal aliens here now! Because of the above section of the Constitution, and the fact that the Federal Government is not resisting, any invaded state would be fully justified in withholding all taxes from the federal government or even withdrawing from the union! The Arizona law is clearly constitutional! If the Supreme Court holds otherwise, that will show to every aware person, that The United States Government itself, is not legitimate!

Iconoclast