JoyV wrote:
Again your understanding of the law and our separation of powers is lacking. Courts do not bring lawsuits. Courts JUDGE lawsuits. It is the executive branch which include law enforcement. The judicial branch which judges crimes, and in the case of the Supreme Court of the Unites States, which judges constitutionality. So of course the federal government bringing a suit to the courts was done by the executive branch! Any other branch had no authority to do so. The case was filed by the United States Justice Department in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona on July 6, 2010. In case you don't know, the Justice Department is in the executive branch and directly under the president. Several states jointly filed a Proposed Brief of Amici Curiae. The brief supported Arizona. The States of Michigan, Florida, Alabama, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, and Virginia, along with the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, filed their proposed brief on July 14, 2010. The brief stated that it "defends the States' authority to concurrently enforce federal immigration laws, especially in light of the selective and even lack of enforcement of those laws by the Obama administration. Under the current situation, the States have lost control over their borders and are left to guess at the reality of the law." Additionally, 81 members of the U.S. Congress filed a Proposed Brief of Amici Curiae. The brief supported Arizona.
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Yet, Arizona lost in the court case.. so you do not agree with the court finding.. Now you insist our court system is mean and evil, and that it is all President Obama fault..
I feel that courts follow the law in these cases, therefore the overturning of the Arizona law was fully acceptable and should have been expected..