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http://www.mediaite.com/online/supreme-court-strikes-down-most-of-controversial-arizona-immigration-law/
The Supreme Court delivered a mixed response to controversial Arizona immigration law SB 1070 this morning, striking down many of the laws provisions but not ruling on the most controversial one-- allowed law enforcement officers to check for ... activism in the Court's history. And, for no reason. The ruling was so absolute. I tend to agree. I question Scalia's state-of-mind these days. His anger is consuming him. The Real Royal Emperor. Excellent! Anonymous ...
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http://scaredmonkeys.com/2012/06/25/supreme-court-decides-arizona-immigration-law-s-b-1070-struck-down-parts-but-upholds-key-immigration-status-check-provision/
Today, the US Supreme Court ruled on Arizona Immigration Law S.B. 1070 and struck the provisions dealing with state criminal penalties and other provisions which imposed procedural requirements on illegals in the state. Among the ... upheld in its entirety. The majority “deprives States of what most would consider the defining characteristic of sovereignty: the power to exclude from the sovereign's territory people who have no right to be there,” Justice Scalia wrote.
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http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2012/06/supreme-court-rules-arizonas-immigration-law
Arizona claimed only to be trying to help the feds enforce laws already on the books (by making it a state crime to be in violation of federal immigration laws, among other things), but the court demurred. .... Really? I and many like me worked on farms in central Kentucky for the minimum wage. That job put me through my first few years of college until I got a better job loading trucks. Most, if not all, of those jobs are now in the ... Scalia's dissent was deeply troubling.
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http://angrywhitedude.com/2012/06/question-of-the-day-do-you-agree-with-supreme-court-justice-antonin-scalia-2/
The Supreme Court's decision to strike down most of the key provisions of Arizona's SB 1070 immigration law “boggles the mind” in light of the Obama policy shift, Scalia added. Continue Reading. Speaking in dissent of most ...
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http://www.kplu.org/post/justice-scalia-disputes-accuracy-angry-leak-over-health-care
"That's just not the way justices of the Supreme Court behave, going into pouts. I mean that — it's absurd," he said. "If you can't disagree even vehemently on the law without taking it personally and getting angry at the person, ...
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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/supreme-court-republicans-lawsuit-obama-immigration-dream-anthony-kennedy-arizona-boehner.php
But the Supreme Court decision Monday in the Arizona immigration case suggests Republicans may have a difficult time prevailing in court. The court's 5-3 decision to strike down major pieces of Arizona's immigration law ...
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http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/scalia_dissent_hits_obama_immigration_policy_law_prof_calls_justice_an_into/
Among the critics is University of Colorado law professor Paul Campos, who said in a Salon commentary that Scalia sounds more like a right-wing radio host than a Supreme Court justice. ... Most Read; Most Commented; Most Emailed. Law .... @Esq in Austin: Scalia is pointing out that the court struck down the warrantless arrest provision of the Arizona law because those arrests may not be in line with Federal priorities, so he argues that the Federal government has ...
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/05/scalia-critics-fault-justice-politics_n_1651283.html
But to say, as the court does, that Arizona contradicts federal law by enforcing applications of the Immigration Act that the president declines to enforce boggles the mind," Scalia said. ... "He really wasn't criticizing the Obama administration's position. ... "By not caving in to the most craven political calls, it appears the Court has stood by more than 70 years of legal precedent to ensure that: some 32 million Americans will have access to health insurance; we stop the ...
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http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/justice-scalias-odd-dissent-in-arizona-v-united-states/
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Monday ripped President Obama's new deportation directive when he offered his minority opinion on the Arizona immigration ruling. The court tossed out most of Arizona's controversial immigration law, but in his dissent Scalia raised eyebrows by blasting the Obama administration's directive to stop deporting some young illegal immigrants though that policy was not a matter before the court in the Arizona case.
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http://www.mediaite.com/print/e-j-dionne-would-like-justice-scalia-to-resign-for-having-too-many-opinions/
Justice Scalia, the staunch originalist whose dissents have made his name an indelible one in the Court's history, mentioned the President's executive policy on immigration after the Arizona decision, while noting that the state had one of the biggest illegal immigration problems ... “So often, Scalia has chosen to ignore the obligation of a Supreme Court justice to be, and appear to be, impartial. ..... I think his wingnut side of the court lost and he showed displaced anger.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/27/1190254/-Antonin-Scalia-shows-once-again-what-a-vile-creature-he-is
... really meant it. Associate Justice Antonin Scalia is known for outrageous comments both on and off the Supreme Court bench, where he has distinguished himself for 27 years as one of its most extremist justices in a century. ... That's right, he favored Arizona's having the right to control immigration based on what post-Civil War states of the former Confederacy did to restrict the movement of millions of blacks who had been held as slaves just a few years previously.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/25/1102992/-In-dissent-Scalia-attacks-Obama-and-then-he-gets-really-crazy
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (R) not only took a gratuitious shot at President Obama's new policy against deporting DREAM Act kids in his dissent on today's Supreme Court decision striking down much of Arizona's SB1070, ... that Arizona and the States that support it predicted: A Federal Government that does not want to enforce the immigration laws as written, and leaves the States' borders unprotected against immigrants whom those laws would exclude.
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http://www.opednews.com/articles/Time-for-Congress-to-Impea-by-Thom-Hartmann-120628-417.html
But it goes beyond Scalia's comments on immigration -- the guy has a history of tarnishing the integrity of the Supreme Court. ... So Thomas Jefferson was already a little uneasy with Samuel Chase as a Supreme Court justice. ... Madison case that gave the court the power to strike down laws passed by both Congress and the president, making it the most powerful, and unaccountable, of the three branches of government, Jefferson's anger with the court -- and Samuel ...
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http://hulshofschmidt.wordpress.com/2012/06/29/bigot-of-the-week-award-justice-antonin-scalia-with-bonus-rand-paul-sauce/
In another surprisingly decent ruling, SCOTUS also struck down most of Arizona's horrific breathing-while-brown immigration law. The odious “papers please” component was sustained but given a stern warning. Scalia's head ...
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http://www.rollcall.com/news/on_immigration_antonin_scalia_challenges_barack_obama-215643-1.html
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia took swipes at President Barack Obama s immigration policies today and even questioned whether states would have joined the United States at all given today s ruling on Arizona s immigration law. ... “We will continue to enforce our immigration laws by focusing on our most important priorities like border security and criminals who endanger our communities, and not, for example, students who earn their education,” he said.
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http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/drivers-seat/
When an Arizona appeals court ruled that this unwritten policy amounted to an unconstitutional burden on the right to abortion, Mr. Arpaio appealed to the Supreme Court. ... In remarks from the bench aimed directly at President Barack Obama, Justice Scalia demanded: “Are the sovereign states at the mercy of the federal executive's refusal to enforce the nation's immigration laws? .... The truth is, I thought for a moment I might be crazy, that I was making it all up. May 6 ...
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http://pbd.blogspot.com/2012_06_01_archive.html
http://www.samefacts.com/2012/06/uncategorized/judicial-misconduct-dept · http://prospect.org/article/supreme-court-strikes-most-arizona-immigration-law-making-scalia-very-angry. The most remarkable opinion in the case, ...
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http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/06/25/break-out-the-sad-music-its-almost-over/
Supreme Court Upholds Key Part of Arizona Law – WSJ High court strikes down key parts of Arizona immigration law -MSNBC Controversial Ariz. immigration provision upheld – CBS Supreme Court strikes down most of ...
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http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jan-brewer-hammered-in-press-conference-for-claiming-victory-after-scotus-ruling-on-s-b-1070/
Arizona's Republican Gov. Jan Brewer was hammered on Monday during a press conference where she defended Arizona's controversial immigration enforcement law, Senate Bill 1070, after most of the law was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court. ... So you let them go. So you've accomplished nothing.” “I believe that we've accomplished a lot,” said Brewer. “In that it was upheld by the United States Supreme Court and that we will move forward instructing law ...
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http://duanegraham.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/the-state-of-scalias-mind-tells-the-score/
I am pleased that the Supreme Court has struck down key provisions of Arizona's immigration law. ... Nope. And that is part of the reason why Scalia's pissed-off prose over Arizona's plight is so damned telling. ... In a similar telling instance I made the mistake yesterday of raising this same subject to a conservative acquaintance who responded with an angry accusation that “Obama will probably get the decision he wants because he's gotten everything he wants so far!
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