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Illegal Aliens Sue Senate
Illegal immigrant students and members of the House sued the Senate this week to try to overturn the upper chamber's filibuster rule, arguing that the 60-vote supermajority requirement violates the Constitution and is blocking important legislation such as legalization for illegal immigrants.
Separation of Powers, anyone? I don't see how this could possibly proceed but nowadays anything is possible.
If successful, the lawsuit, filed Monday, would rewrite the way the Senate operates -- though courts generally have been reluctant to meddle in internal congressional rules.
It would mean the Courts have absolute rule.
Still, the effort mixes two thorny issues in separation of powers and immigration, and is likely to keep the Dream Act at the forefront of the national debate. The bill would legalize illegal immigrant students and young adults who were brought to the U.S. as children and who are seen as among the toughest cases in the immigration debate.
In late 2010, the Dream Act passed the House but was blocked from action by a filibuster in the Senate. The 55-41 vote fell five shy of the 60 needed to overcome a filibuster.
More at the link. Beyond boggling. Gobsmacked, I am.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 05/16/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  IMO iff this suit does proceed, + espec iff the Illegals win, THE VALIDITY OF THE ENTIRE US CONSTITUTION WILL BE IN QUESTION.

That sound you will be hearing will be the Commies + Socialists + aligned celebrating.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 05/16/2012 0:15 Comments || Top||

#2  I want to sue the Senate AND the House -- for misfeasance, malfeasance and dumbfeasance. Can we make it a class action suit?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 05/16/2012 0:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Here's the fun part - it will be the fault of the US = Fed-Congress for letting Pol Waffling + Nepotism, etc. run amuck oer Truth + Ethics.

"God", iff you will.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 05/16/2012 0:19 Comments || Top||

#4  No doubt it was easy to find a lawyer to bring the case, but I'm interested to hear how non-citizens even have standing to sue in the matter.

Be careful what you wish for, kiddies. Ever hear of 'tyranny of the majority'? An example would be a simple majority voting to kick all the illegals out of the country. Government needs a little inertia to keep it from veering off into the weeds.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/16/2012 0:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Each house makes its own rules. The judiciary would [not that the concept has ever stopped it before] be violating the separations of powers.

Article I, Section 5

Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/16/2012 8:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Appears to be a crisis in the making, and you know what we simmply cannot do with a crisis. Now, how can we evolve this into ...... latino dem votes ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/16/2012 8:36 Comments || Top||

#7  How do criminal aliens have standing?

Posted by: Hellfish || 05/16/2012 12:23 Comments || Top||

#8  I've always been perplexed as to how illegals do not lose every single bit of property and money they have when they are found. Is not all of it "goods gained during the commission of a crime"?

Let states and local governments confiscate everything that an illegal cannot prove they brought with them and they will clear themselves out pretty fast.
Posted by: Laurence of the Rats || 05/16/2012 12:25 Comments || Top||

#9  2 things: Art 1 Sec 5 kills this in its cradle. And how the f**k do illegals have ANY standing to sue?
Posted by: OldSpook || 05/16/2012 13:40 Comments || Top||

#10  One of the four democrat house members is our olde buddy Rep. Henry C. “Hank” Johnson Jr. Remember him? Joe M does. Hank was worried about tipping over Guam with overpopulation. After the 4 dem senators, we have an illegal alien as a plaintiff.

They all are doing O's dirty work. Hey, it's worth a try. But it is more than that. They are using publicity to pressure the senate. Any tool in the kit will be used to force the agenda. O needs votes, and illegals are a righteous sized pool.

This is a direct attack on our Constitution and our Republic.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 05/16/2012 15:06 Comments || Top||

#11  Corruption
Posted by: newc || 05/16/2012 17:25 Comments || Top||

#12  There is no piece of the constitution the left won't try to get rid of to advance their agenda.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/16/2012 18:00 Comments || Top||

#13  I think when Obastard took the oath of office he said the words "uphold and defend" but was thinking "undermine and subvert".
Posted by: OldSpook || 05/16/2012 20:00 Comments || Top||


-Election 2012
Obama support for gays 'political'
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Most Americans believe President Barack Obama
How's it going, Sunshine?...
came out in favour of gay marriage for political reasons.

The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
/CBS News poll has found that a majority of voters view Obama's decision as political rather than because he thought it was the right thing to do.

They say the issue would not affect the way they vote, but the public remains deeply divided over same sex marriage nonetheless.

Mr Obama, who has long maintained he was "evolving" on the issue, has come out in support of gay marriage last Wednesday after Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body...
did so in a television interview.

Asked whether Obama took the step for political reasons or because he thought it was right, 67 per cent say it was for political reasons.

Only 24 per cent say he did it because it was the right thing to do.
Posted by: Fred || 05/16/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The funny part of all of this is that politically there is absolutely no difference in the position of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Thought they both came out with opposing PERSONAL opinions, their political position is identical; let the states decide. So I don't see how either candidate is going to be able to make hay from this issue compared to the other.

Posted by: crosspatch || 05/16/2012 1:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Lie now, lie later, No difference,

AAAANND YER OUT, Says the Umpire (people).
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 05/16/2012 6:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Clinton, the "first black president" and the Obama, "first gay president."

Same level of scum bag, same motivation.

Posted by: Besoeker || 05/16/2012 8:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Those are my policies and if you don't like them... I have others
Groucho Obama
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 05/16/2012 13:04 Comments || Top||

#5  "I have others"

Unemployment for women has really jumped for a variety of reasons. Student loans, now child care perhaps will be next. Government creates one mess after another.
Posted by: Dale || 05/16/2012 13:28 Comments || Top||

#6  Everything he Obama does is politically-motivated. Perhaps Obama and Biden can share the rainbow tiara and not another term.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/16/2012 16:34 Comments || Top||



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