Judicial Tyranny
by David Atkins (“thereisnospoon”)
In a blow for the freedom of crops to rot, kids to go uneducated and bigots to hate, a federal appeals court has blocked parts of the patriotic Alabama immigration law:
A federal appeals court Friday temporarily blocked portions of Alabama’s strict immigration law, most notably a provision requiring public schools to check the immigration status of students.
But the court also upheld a provision requiring police to check the residency status of suspected illegal immigrants during traffic stops.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued the order after the Justice Department requested that the court block the law until the court could consider it fully. Government lawyers contended, as they have in challenges of similar laws in other states, that the legislation was preempted by federal immigration laws.
The legislation, known as HB 56 and signed by Republican Gov. Robert J. Bentley in June, is widely considered the toughest of the handful of immigration laws in the nation.
Republicans are already asserting that the Founding Fathers would be shocked. Founding fathers like Thomas Jefferson who said things like this:
“God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever. Commerce between master and slave is despotism. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Establish a law for educating the common people. This it is the business of the state and on a general plan.”
I’m sure Thomas Jefferson and his many-hued children would protest mightily at the notion that the common people who work 12 hours a day in the fields be considered children of God to be educated on a common plan. That would be a denial of basic liberty.
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