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| AZ AG Declines To Defend State's New Immigration Law |
| 2010-06-19 |
| PHOENIX (AP) - Attorney General Terry Goddard says Friday that his office plans to withdraw as the state's lawyers in legal challenges to Arizona's new immigration law. That leaves Gov. Jan Brewer's attorneys to defend the law on the state's behalf. The Republican governor and Democratic attorney general were in a dispute over whether Goddard should defend the state. Both are gubernatorial candidates. CNN has confirmed that Obama Administration lawyers are planning to file a legal challenge to the controversial Arizona immigration law sometime in the next month, according to a senior administration official. However, the Department of Justice will still not confirm the claim and insists they are reviewing tha law. Federal government lawyers who have been working on the law challenge will most likely file their arguments in Federal Phoenix Court in the days leading up to July 28th when the law is scheduled to take effect the official said. |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #11 This POs AG should be filing law suit after law suit against the federal government, lets say first for environmentasl damages to the desert. Second for actively endangering the lives of Americans, third, for the revinue spent doing the feds job on the border, and on and on and on.... If Hillary wins, then the feds will have to lose. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2010-06-19 19:27 |
| #10 This is undoubtedly the most glaring, in-your-face piece of evidence that the federal government has NO intention of EVER securing our southern border from invasion/attack. If ever there could be another civil war in the U.S. (God Forbid) this could be it. |
| Posted by: Spike Glager9542 2010-06-19 16:45 |
| #9 Because Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced on Ecuadorean television Ecuadorean television? Don't they let her give press conferences in this country anymore? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2010-06-19 16:09 |
| #8 In an earlier news item which was ignored by the national media, the Pinal County Sheriff admitted the narcotraficantes control part of his county. The sheriff admits the cartels are operating in his county and without the federal government's help they can't get control. KGUN 9 News asked Babeu flat out if cartels control parts of Arizona. "Absolutely, they have in terms of the remote areas in the drug corridors in the desert here in west Pinal County. Our government has even erected signs warning citizens to beware this is a known drug corridor," Babeu said. When the 911 call came in deputies immediately started a search but found the two bodies shot to death after four hours of looking. In lieu of this violence Babeu is asking president Barack Obama to send 3000 National Guard troops to the border to help stop it. "We can't patrol not only these remote areas, we have a hard enough time just responding to our emergencies," |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-06-19 12:16 |
| #7 Neo-Nazis recruiting border enforcers south of I-8: From the please-let-this-be-a-joke-but-it's-not file, we have an e-mail from a known Neo-Nazi inviting folks to come to the Arizona desert to play paramilitary, urging them to "bring plenty of firearms and ammo" and "stand the line" in the desert against "armed narco-terrorists." Pinal [County AZ] Sheriff Paul Babeau, who was the one who described the desert area as being under the control of drug cartels, had this response, according to McCombs: "Though I appreciate their support and offer to take up arms and patrol, this would not be helpful and would only cause a strain on already strained resources and their safety needs to be a priority. I do not ask or encourage them to come here. "Securing our international border and fighting these heavily armed smugglers is the responsibility of the federal government. "Local law enforcement can't handle this on our own, yet it will only complicate our concerns to have untrained and armed citizens, who are not from Pinal County - patrolling our desert areas. We currently have operations that are ongoing and advised [them] to not take law enforcement matter into their own hands." |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-06-19 11:59 |
| #6 Gov. Brewer's statement yesterday: "Because Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced on Ecuadorean television on June 8th that the Obama Administration had decided to sue Arizona over its recently passed anti-illegal immigration law, SB1070, it will come as no surprise if recent media reports are accurate and if the president's policies now, in fact, include filing a lawsuit against the State of Arizona. Though not surprising, that decision is, nevertheless, outrageous. Our federal government should be using its legal resources to fight illegal immigration, not the law-abiding citizens of Arizona. Despite the law's rigorous safeguards against racial profiling and carefully crafted language to avoid usurping federal authority, several lawsuits have already been filed. Because the Arizona Legislature had no confidence that the Attorney General would vigorously defend this legislation, subsequently giving me the authority to hire outside counsel - and because the Attorney General has now withdrawn as counsel for the State -- I will ensure the immigration laws we passed are vigorously defended all the way to the United States Supreme Court if necessary, where this reasonable law will ultimately be found constitutional." |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-06-19 11:52 |
| #5 IIRC the law itself allowed for the Gov to hire outside Counsel since the Legis knew the AG would either deliberately f*ck it up or refuse to defend. He's not declining, he's getting kicked off the case. Oh, and he's the Dem candidate for Gov this fall. Terry's toast |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-06-19 11:29 |
| #4 Now that the DOJ has fired suit against Arizona, I hope Eric Holder will eventually get around to reading the law. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2010-06-19 11:25 |
| #3 I thought defending the state in court was under the jurisdiction of the AG - do the governor's attorneys even have standing to do so? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-06-19 11:06 |
| #2 Nobody really expected Terry to suddenly sprout a set, did they? |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2010-06-19 10:30 |
| #1 Better have a new job lined up after November since you are useless protecting Arizona citizens. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-06-19 09:49 |