Kagan Warns That States Will Have Path To Stop Federal Policy ‘In Its Tracks’ In Immigration Case

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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday that drill to the heart of executive branch power and states’ attempts to curtail it. 

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But that’s the point of all this and other nonsense isn’t it?

What day is the Reichstag fire scheduled for…I want to clear my calendar.

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We know that the fix is in and the corrupted court will channel their inner Fuentes.

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Why is this a matter for the courts? Isn’t this the sort of political issue that should be worked out by the legislative and executive branches. Ultimately this gives the Supreme Court power that I don’t think the framers intended.

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Well, then I guess we understand what the outcome will take place in the near term. Should we assume that her prediction is about to come to pass?

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This article almost makes it seem as if the courts are hopelessly politicized. Who could imagine such a thing?

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Again, this is another beware what you wish for on the part of the GOP. If they get their way, watch blue states halt all sorts of rules when GOP has presidency. I can see their attempts at a national abortion ban go up in flames, etc.

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Since when does Louisiana touch the Mexican border?

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Just use Trump’s Magic Marker!

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Geography was never trump’s strong suit.

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Other than state AG gaslighting in the drive to remove New Orleans from the sanctuary city list I don’t imagine LA has any real immigration problems at all.

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The only reason SCOTUS’s 6 right wingers won’t gut the federal government’s power over immigration is because they don’t want California, New Mexico, and Arizona to be able to thwart a future GOP president.

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Though, are any/enough of them forward-thinking enough to make that argument? Barreling ahead with the Dobbs decision calls their judgment into question.

I’m so glad that “judgment” isn’t their primary job description…

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I live close to the Mexican border. From my old office window I could see hills in Sonora, south of Nogales, Mex. I look out my living room window and I’ve yet to see the ravening hoards of fearsome brown people trump says we should be afraid of. No caravans, no mobs.

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Logic, Intellect, and wisdom have never been his strong suits either.

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orange is the dumbest, least educated, least articulate, most prejudiced figure we’ve ever seen in political life, which seems to be fine with his supporters who don’t outnumber his opponents but they’re a lot more vocal and put their stupidity on display as often as they can.

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I think these takes would be important if you were talking about a court that considered itself bound by precedent or legal reasoning. But the current Gang doesn’t appear to care much about either of those things. So if a state run by democrats attempts to assert the same kind of standing against some action by a republican president, they’ll simply rule the other way.

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This turn of events is entirely avoidable, so I’d suggest you lose the “when”, especially if Biden takes on trump again. It’ll be 2020 all over again. Nothing increases Democratic turnout more than a despicable misogynistic bigot running for that office and most of whom remember that it was a R-appointed court which overturned our right to safe abortions.

@paulw So Alito has meals with an anti-abortion activist in 2014 and claims the man’s beliefs had nothing to do with the Court’s awful decision. Nor did the money the man pour into right wing coffers, think Hobby Lobby, have anything to do with it.

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It’s time for term limits at SCOTUS. It’s doable.

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Feature, not bug, per the cultists.

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