{"id":10844,"date":"2011-08-11T19:28:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T23:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10844"},"modified":"2011-08-11T19:28:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T23:28:48","slug":"arizona-immigration-law-on-its-way-to-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10844\/arizona-immigration-law-on-its-way-to-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Immigration Law on Its Way to Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0811\/61010.html#ixzz1UlWlggrM\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a><\/em> reports that Arizona Republican Governor Jan Brewer has formally petitioned the United States Supreme Court to overturn the 9<sup>th<\/sup> Circuit\u2019s opinion that important parts of the state\u2019s tough immigration law (SB 1070) violate the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/on-air\/on-the-record\/transcript\/039frustrated039-gov-brewer-seeks-high-court039s-help-enforcing-arizona039s-immigration-l\" target=\"_blank\">Brewer said in May<\/a> that she was \u201cfrustrated\u201d by the court\u2019s ruling and planned to appeal it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bottom line is, is that everyone knows that the 9th Circuit has a reputation of being very, very liberal,\u201d she said. \u201cAfter deliberating and thinking about it, I said, \u2018Let\u2019s just go to the Supreme Court.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As usual, the outcome will probably hinge on the moderate views of Justice Anthony Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>Heaven help us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico reports that Arizona Republican Governor Jan Brewer has formally petitioned the United States Supreme Court to overturn the 9th Circuit\u2019s opinion that important parts of the state\u2019s tough immigration law (SB 1070) violate the U.S. Constitution. Brewer said in May that she was \u201cfrustrated\u201d by the court\u2019s ruling and planned to appeal it. \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1902,846,514,1150,1452,92,995],"class_list":["post-10844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-anthony-kennedy","tag-arizona","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-jan-brewer","tag-sb-1070","tag-supreme-court","tag-u-s-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10844"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10847,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10844\/revisions\/10847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}