By Stark
In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that states have the power to revoke business licenses of employers who hire workers who are in the country illegally.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the ACLU had joined forces to challenge an Arizona law on grounds that it infringed on federal authority. The Supreme Court disagreed.
The ruling does not cover a better-known Arizona law that gives state and local authorities more authority to question people suspected of illegal residency. That law is also the subject of a court challenge, but the court majority’s stance on the business license law seems to undermine the theory that states have no business getting involved in immigration issues.
The Los Angeles Times has a lengthy report on the court ruling.
“And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family of man, the question, whether a constitutional republic, or a democracy—a government of the people, by the same people—can, or cannot, maintain its territorial integrity, against its own domestic foes. It presents the question, whether discontented individuals, too few in numbers to control administration, according to organic law, in any case, can always, upon the pretences made in this case, or on any other pretences, or arbitrarily, without any pretence, break up their Government, and thus practically put an end to free government upon the earth. It forces us to ask: “Is there, in all republics, this inherent, and fatal weakness?’’ “Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?’’
Abraham Lincoln, July 4 1861
Chalk up one more erosion of liberties to the activist court extraordinaire….
Liberty posted a fine quote where Lincoln ponders over the ease of takeover from a rebellious few ‘discontented individuals’ using territorial integrity to mean safety from its own domestic foes,
not immigrants.
And at the end,
whether or not a heavy hand upon its citizenry is necessary from a government intent on preserving the liberties of the people it means to serve.
Too bad for Lincoln that the PR machine wasn’t strong enough back then to convince Americans that the clamp-down was for their own good
and those liberties lost were unAmerican anyway.
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The bots, they know no limits……such insightful comments coming from a land grab come on about a come on….cyber lice…
That is why I spent one night in Flagstaff, ate in and didn’t even buy a magnet or t-shirt in Sedona….got through that state pronto…don’t care to contribute to New Reichsland….even gave away a week at a condo in Scottsdale earlier this year…whiz on Arizona….
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