In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court held Monday that Arizona’s public-financing election law violated the First Amendment. The Justices split along ideological lines with Chief Justice John Roberts authoring a majority opinion joined by Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, and Sam Alito.
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There aren’t many issues in America these days that incite as much intense passion on all sides as immigration. Among the many unfortunate consequences is the damaging effect on efforts to make reasonable progress on border security and feeding this country’s ravenous hunger for technological and scientific talent via H1B visas.
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By:
Ken Klukowski
05/31/11 11:02 PM
Arizona won a round in the national fight over immigration last week in a case with implications for the 2012 election.
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Before the Obama administration sued Arizona over their 2010 immigration enforcement law, the Obama Justice Department also joined the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in their suit against Arizona’s 2008 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA). Today, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Arizona, and against Obama, in the LAWA case. The Heritage Foundation’s Hans von Spakovsky reports:
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News of a Sarah Palin documentary scheduled to open in Iowa this June was highlighted on the Drudge Report yesterday, sparking new speculation about a possible 2012 run for Palin.
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Right now, Arizona’s robust system of public financing for political campaigns is on trial before the United States Supreme Court. And so is San Francisco’s.
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State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley will be leaving the State Department following his comments calling the Defense Department's treatment of Wikileaks leaker Pfc.
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Perhaps you could not get the time off of work to travel to Scottsdale, Ariz., for the San Francisco Giants spring training, but never fear, you can still catch some of the action there.
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Dave Righetti’s been around too long to gloat.
Even with four aces in his rotation and an accomplished bullpen, the veteran pitching coach knows the Giants’ 15 postseason games shortened their offseason and lengthened the odds of opponents taking them lightly in 2011.
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A federal appeals court in San Francisco has upheld a $78,000 verdict against an Arizona rancher in a case presided over by a federal judge who was killed in a mass shooting in Tucson in January.The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a jury’s conclusion that rancher Roger Barnett must pay $78,000 in damages to four female undocumented immigrants who claimed he assaulted them and caused severe emotional distress when he allegedly threatened them with a gun.
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