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Feds Sue AZ! Sovereignty Attack!

July 6th, 2010

Today I fly the South Carolina State Sovereignty Patriot Flag because on this date, July 6th, 2010, Eric Holder’s RACIST U.S. Justice Department has filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Arizona’s new law targeting illegal immigrants (non-citizens), setting the stage for a clash between the federal government and state over the nation’s toughest immigration crackdown.The “fight” will be over the “Supremacy Clause” of the US Constitution. The text of Article VI, Clause 2, establishes these as the highest form of law in the American legal system, both in the Federal courts and in all of the State courts, mandating that all state judges shall uphold them, even if there are state laws or state constitutions that conflict with the powers of the Federal government.

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Article IV, Clause 2: This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

But there is also a second clause in the Constitution in the 14th Amendment:

14th Amendment Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. (Are illegal aliens citizens?)

Associated Press: The lawsuit will argue that Arizona’s law requiring state and local police to question and possibly arrest illegal immigrants during the enforcement of other laws such as traffic stops usurps federal authority. The government will likely seek an injunction to delay the July 29 implementation of the law until the case is resolved. The government contends that the Arizona law violates the supremacy clause of the Constitution, a legal theory that says federal laws override state laws. It is already illegal under federal law to be in the country illegally, but Arizona is the first state to make it a state crime and add its own punishment and enforcement tactics.

NY Post: The legal fight between the federal government and Arizona will be a case of dueling insincere arguments. The federal government will pretend that it objects to Arizona supposedly creating a wholly new scheme of immigration regulation, when its real problem is that the state wants to take existing law too seriously. Arizona will pretend that it is acting in keeping with long-standing federal intent, when its law never would have been necessary if the feds intended to enforce their own statutes. The case against Arizona rests on “pre-emption,” the notion that federal law “occupies the field” on immigration and prevents states from passing their own regulations. Arizona has been here before. Pro-immigration groups sued over its workplace-enforcement law passed in 2007. All the same arguments were mustered about federal pre-emption. The federal courts rejected them because the state law so closely tracked the federal law and didn’t contradict its stated purpose.

The Bottom Line

The Federal Government is now suing States for upholding a State Law that the Federal Government, having such a law, will not uphold itself♠. What is more important to a citizen, the government of the State or the Federal Government? Classically, a clear line is drawn clearly separating Conservative and Progressive Ideologies. The courts will decide.

The RACIST and CORRUPT DOJ is doing Obama’s bidding by attempting to strike down the Arizona Law. In so doing, Obama and the Democrats can pursue their agenda of amnesty for illegal aliens which is nothing but the largest voter registration drive in the history of the world. They do not care about these people, any more than they’ve cared for the blacks … still downtrodden and helpless in many areas of the country, (New Orleans, Detroit, DC, etc), because “government aid” … promised and given for decades has not worked and has kept this minority group powerless and unable to rise to their full potential. But they continue to vote Democrat, falling over and over for the lies and promises never kept.