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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 07, 2010 18 Comments
Rhode Island is the new Arizona. No, actually, Arizona is the new Rhode Island. Despite the failure of the Rhode Island legislature to pass an Arizona-like immigration bill, Rhode Island already has implemented the critical piece of the Arizona law, checking the immigration status of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 25, 2010 4 Comments
A bill introduced by Democratic Deputy Majority Leader Peter Palumbo in the Rhode Island House of Representatives, similar to the Arizona immigration law, will not be permitted to go to a committee hearing, much less a vote: House Speaker Gordon D. Fox decided Monday that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2010 3 Comments
A Democratic state legislator in Rhode Island has filed a bill similar to the immigration law recently enacted in Arizona. As reported by The Providence Journal: State Rep. Peter Palumbo, D-District 16, Cranston, has filed a bill that largely copies a controversial Arizona law considered...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 17, 2010 5 Comments
Also known as killing two birds with one stone. We get to apologize to and beg forgiveness from China for the sin of Arizona seeking to enforce the U.S. immigration laws, thus satisfying the 11th Commandment, “thou shall apologize profusely.” And, as the twofer, we...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 03, 2010 17 Comments
One of the arguments raised against the Arizona immigration law (in addition to it being the modern incarnation of Nazism) was that states had no authority under the U.S. Constitution to conduct their own immigration policies. So I presume we will hear howls of constitutional...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 29, 2010 19 Comments
There is a fundamental disconnect in the arguments being mounted against the Arizona immigration law. What many of the critics want to say, but do not, is that they view all immigration laws as inherently racist because most illegal immigrants are non-white. There are some...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 29, 2012 50 Comments
The self-delusion that yesterday’s affirmation of Obamacare’s mandate under the taxing power of Congress was a conservative victory continues in full force today.  (See links and quotes at HotAir and Instapundit) Judicial restraint now means ignoring the will of Congress as to the purposes and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 20, 2012 28 Comments
There are several really important Supreme Court decisions to be handed down tomorrow at 10 a.m., Monday at 10 a.m., or next Thursday at 10 a.m. ScotusBlog has a “plain English” summary of the remaining cases, and almost all have huge legal implications (forced union contributions...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 24, 2012 8 Comments
SB 1070, the Arizona immigration law, is on for oral argument tomorrow at the U.S. Supreme Court.  Justice Elena Kagan recused herself.  If there is a 4-4 split, the 9th Circuit decision enjoining key part of the law stands. My prior posts for some background:...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 12, 2011 14 Comments
Here are some things going on: Correlation or Causation? Supreme Court to take Arizona immigration law case, Kagan recuses herself.  Some of See my prior post.  Court previously upheld in part unrelated Arizona E-verify law. Why Romney is wrong and Gingrich is right on capital gains...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 10, 2011 6 Comments
You may not know it, but the internet hacking group Anonymous helped launch the Occupy Wall Street movement with a video released in late August:. During the initial protests in New York, protesters attempted to use masks similar to those used in the video, but...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 14, 2011 67 Comments
Obama’s speech at the Tucson memorial was an opportunity thrust upon him, not one of choice. But the tone of the speech was consistent in many ways with the Obama 2.0 we saw during the lame duck session when Obama struck a tax deal with...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 09, 2011 33 Comments
Sheriff Clarence Dupnik of Tucson, Arizona, has become the spokesman for blaming right-wing “vitriol” for the shooting by deranged gunman Jared Lee Loughner.  Dupnik made national fame last spring when he announced that he would refuse to enforce the new Arizona immigration law and for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 06, 2011 7 Comments
One of Linc Chafee’s key campaign promises in running for Governor was to rescind an executive order in Rhode Island which required vendors doing business with state agencies to use the federal E-Verify system to verify the immigration status of employees, and directing the state police...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2010 7 Comments
We are being led by ideologues who are wilfully ignorant of the legal topics about which they do not hesitate to opine. These people lack a simple inquisitiveness of the mind on topics about which they already have made up their minds. First, Attorney General...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 05, 2010 17 Comments
I saw a thread on Memeorandum linking to a ridiculous post, titled Bush, Slave Labor and Arizona, by the founder and Editor of BuzzFlash.com, Mark Karlin. BuzzFlash bills itself as a progressive online community, which probably is why I had not heard of it before,...
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