Discussion for article #230786
This is what passes for governance in red states. Pathetic.
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“unilateral suspension of the Nation’s immigration laws is unlawful.”
Huh? Approx 400,000 people were deported last year and each year Obama has been office. This number is the absolute maximum that can be deported based on budget and manpower. After President Obama’s executive action how many will be deported? About 400,000, except they will be a highly targeted 400,000 made up of folks I am more than happy to see returned to their respective homelands. If this is suspension of immigration laws these Republican State AGs have a very odd definition of suspension.
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The Party of fiscal responsibility wasting tax payer money on a doomed lawsuit. Sorry morons, but the Supreme Court has already said he has the authority.
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Waste of time and money.
How bout instead of theatrical tricks, these governors instead encourage the House and Senate to pass immigration reform???
Is that too hard?
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More frivolous lawsuits from the self-proclaimed party of fiscal responsibility.
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And tort reform
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Instead of a lawsuit they should draft a letter to their fellow Republicans in the House and Senate and remind them that all they have to do is pass comprehensive immigration reform that isn’t loaded with toxic crap.
standing? or grandstanding?
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In a word, yes. Next question, please.
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In the words of the Governor of the great state of New Jersey, “Get in line.”
I’m glad that Maine, Nebraska, Montana, and Wisconsin have signed onto this. I’m sick and tired of these Canadians coming down here and stealing our jobs!
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So I guess the GOTP has changed their position on frivolous lawsuits.
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So. Republicans are now officially the party of suing to take people’s health insurance away, and suing to kick all the illegal immigrants out. Next they’ll be suing to make Americans work for 8 bucks an hour cash, with no health insurance.
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This will get tossed almost immediately.
First, there is the question of standing----none of these AGs can demonstrate harm because of the EO.
Second, President Obama did not “suspend the nation’s immigration laws.”
He just reordered the rankings of who gets deported first.
And President Obama has deported more undocumented immigrants than any previous president.
So the law is being well-enforced—just not in a way that makes the Tea Party nutbars happy.
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How can they file a pre-emptive suit….this will not even go in to effect until 1-1-2015 and can’t even apply until July. Who is the injured party here ?
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Yeah and they appear pretty darned fond of those frivolous lawsuits the claim to disdain so much.
Nah … never for cash … what profit is there to be made in that? They will pay them via debit cards that require bank fees when the worker accesses their pay (like many low wage workers are already subject to). The worker only THINKS they are getting 8 bucks an hour. 
Too bad it’s not a PI suit, they could convene a GOP sponsored tort reform movement (To get the governor elect a motorized wheel chair with a Luchesse hand tooled back in the flag of TX, and the ass end tooled in the Mexican flag) oh wait: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/30/990113/-Hot-Coffee-Most-Important-movie-in-years-updated
“Hot Coffee” exposes the roles of Rove and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in trying to enact “tort reform” on a national level, then in the states, and finally to pack the judiciary with corporate-favored candidates. It tracks the origin of astroturf groups, which were first conceived to make it appear there was grass-roots movement for something called “tort reform.” When Pres. Clinton vetoed the federal tort-reform bill, the Chamber took aim at state legislatures with a hugely expensive p.r. campaign that pressured state governments to enact a variety of caps on punitive damage jury awards, non-economic injury awards and in some cases caps on total recovery. This where Rove comes in, as he saw an opportunity to recruit and use George W. Bush as the spearhead of a campaign to enact tort reform in Texas, and later to crusade as President against “frivolous lawsuits.”
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For all of his chest-thumping about suing Obama at every turn, Abbott does not have much of a track record of success. These suits are a waste of Texas taxpayers’ money.
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