Rising Hegemon
Oh who the fuck am I kidding, definitely the latter:
Buoyed by recent public opinion polls suggesting they're on the right track with illegal immigration, Arizona Republicans will likely introduce legislation this fall that would deny birth certificates to children born in Arizona - and thus American citizens according to the U.S. Constitution - to parents who are not legal U.S. citizens. The law largely is the brainchild of state Sen. Russell Pearce, a Republican whose suburban district, Mesa, is considered the conservative bastion of the Phoenix political scene. He is a leading architect of the Arizona law that sparked outrage throughout the country: Senate Bill 1070
And, as ever, Pearce will style himself the most awesome libertarian in existence adhearing to each an everyword of the Constitution -- except, of course, those who doesn't like, like the 14th Amendment.
The new Republican Party -- "we're going to pass an Unconstitutional law, we're awesome -- up next the First Amendment!"
Because the only Amendment that matters is the 2nd Amendment.
6 comments:
Not fair. How can you hand a drowning party an anvil when they won't let it go?
What?! You mean there is more to the Constitution than the 2nd amendment?
i'd like to see these 'patriots' pass the citizen test.
While the 14th states "born or naturalized", just after being born I do believe you are not under the jurisdiction of the state as your parents (whom are of the age of majority of said state) but rather you're a minor under your parents and therefore by proxy, as illegal as your parents are.
There is SOME basis to Sen. Pierce's argument.
The sheer audacity of the Klannie Jannie group here in Arizona (includes LOTS of transplanted retirees) They've RUINED their home states now want to ruin my native state. I'm African American and quite willing to to do Civil War II-any abrogation of the 14th Amendment is a signal aimed at me
Senorita Bonita
This proposed law has at least one unintended consequence. Since the right-to-lifers claim that a fetus has rights (which is in itself an interesting interpretation of the "born or naturalized" clause of the 14th amendment), will they now concede that a fetus conceived in the United States doesn't have the rights they've endowed it with?
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