NSR Friends, EXCEPT that in a meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, just as Mr. Obama finished touting another “outstanding relationship” (days after ruining the one with ally, Israel), the object of O’s affection, Dmitry, uncorked a “stunner”! Turns out that Mr. Obama’s last “major foreign policy accomplishment,” i.e., START II (the nuclear arms reduction […]
Andrew C. McCarthy
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/268341/winning-case-losing-principle-andrew-c-mccarthy
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Winning the Case, Losing the Principle
Arizona won, but the sovereignty of states suffered a setback.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for the most politicized Justice Department in American history to drop its imperious lawsuit against the people of Arizona — those impertinent subjects who dare to demand enforcement of the immigration laws Pres. Barack Obama deems null and void.
It is true that this week, in upholding Arizona’s sanctions against employers who hire illegal aliens, the Supreme Court implicitly undermined the preemption-by-executive-fiat theory underlying the administration’s suit. By a 5–3 majority (with Justice Elena Kagan, Obama’s former solicitor general, having recused herself), the Court held that a state is not barred from enacting laws that are consistent with federal statutes and bolster congressional purposes. That is to say, the touchstone of preemption remains law, which is what Congress prescribes, not policy, which is a president’s political calculation about what laws to enforce or not enforce.
