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I really enjoy making up sensational headlines, and then backing down in the article. In this case the Supreme Court is the current one (not Taney’s racist pre Civil War court) and the opinion was issued just yesterday in Arizona v. United States, a case deciding the authority of the states in regulating immigration.
Justice Scalia, “concurring in part and dissenting in part,” cited Emer de Vattel’s Law of Nations on state sovereignty. I don’t know if Vattel would have approved Scalia’s conflation of “state of the United States” with “country,” but that’s beside the point.
What does this have to do with Obama? In practical terms, it will only excite the birthers who will go all hyperbolic about how important Vattel is. In practical terms, Justice Scalia is already on record saying presidential eligibility is jus soli (birth in the country) and so it doesn’t have any bearing on Obama’s eligibility.
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“SCOTUS cites Vattel: a shot over Obama’s bow? (continued)“.
In a news conference earlier today, “America’s toughest sheriff” Joe Arpaio announced a new “no exceptions” policy designed to curb immigration abuses even further.
Under Arizona law (28-625) drivers of animal-drawn vehicles are “subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle by this chapter.” Arpaio has directed his deputies to begin stops of animal-drawn vehicles with checks of their proof of citizenship.
Civil rights and immigration advocates have responded saying that this new policy is no less than intimidation of the population who will now have to carry identification with them during recreational activities.
In an answer to a follow-up question, Arpaio explained that his action was not done on a whim, rather it was taken in an attempt to prevent a repeat of the rather notorious public embarrassment that happened as a result of a series of home invasions by an undocumented worker in the state around this time last year.
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U. S. Representative Duncan Hunter (R – CA) said at a recent Tea Party rally that he was in favor of deporting natural born US Citizens who were the children of illegal aliens (start at 2:05 in the video below). There’s no chance that he misheard the question because he repeated it before answering the question. His justification for such extreme measures: “California’s going under.” This is not a misfire, because Hunter later confirmed his position to North County Times newspaper.
Hunter also drew applause from the crowd when he mentioned the new Arizona law to stop and verify citizens.
Hunter is quoted as saying: ‘being American wasn’t just about walking across the border. He said it’s something ‘in our souls.’” Hmmm. Do you get your soul from place or parentage?
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