DOJ DECLARES WAR ON ARIZONA
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
DoJ Draft: Arizona Immigration Law Impedes Federal Authority [Daniel Foster]
Here we go:
A team of Justice Department attorneys has written a recommendation challenging the Arizona immigration law.
The draft recommendation, part of an ongoing Justice Department review, concludes the Arizona legislature exceeded its authority in crafting a law that could impede federal responsibility for enforcing immigration laws.
Some department lawyers are also concerned that the law could lead to abuses based on race.
The review, however, is not yet complete and there are some within the Justice Department who challenge the recommendation’s legal analysis. Sources tell ABC News that the ongoing review may take weeks more and that no formal recommendation has been sent to the White House.
The White House will have to give its stamp of approval for the Justice Department to challenge the law because this is a civil case.
If the administration eventually does sponsor a constitutional challenge to the Arizona law, it downgrades the president’s move to send 1,200 National Guardsmen to the Arizona border from an impressive bit of political triangulation to a pathetic one.
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