{"id":5828,"date":"2010-06-21T17:41:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T21:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5828"},"modified":"2010-06-21T17:41:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T21:41:09","slug":"kris-kobach-responds-to-doj-challenge-of-az-immigration-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5828\/kris-kobach-responds-to-doj-challenge-of-az-immigration-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Kris Kobach Responds to DOJ Challenge of AZ Immigration Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rising conservative Kris Kobach<\/a> lays out a succinct analysis that puts to rest any notion that the Obama Administration has any legal justification for suing Arizona over its tough new illegal immigration law, and concluding with the only plausible explanation<\/a>:<\/p>\n

But even if one were to imagine that the Obama administration had a strong legal argument, there would be yet another reason not to file the lawsuit: It is completely unnecessary. Five suits have already been filed by the ACLU and their fellow travelers. The issue is already teed up for the federal courts to decide. The administration achieves nothing by launching its own litigation. Except, of course, for rallying the Democrats\u2019 open-borders base before the 2010 elections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a previous part of his National Review Online<\/em> entry<\/a> Kobach shows that every federal appeals court who\u2019s considered the issue \u201csupport the authority of Arizona to enact its law.\u201d\u00a0 Since the lawsuits arrayed against SB 1070<\/a> are almost guaranteed to fail, it will be interesting to see how many open-borders supporters will convince themselves that the Administration\u2019s ploy is worth the bother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rising conservative Kris Kobach lays out a succinct analysis that puts to rest any notion that the Obama Administration has any legal justification for suing Arizona over its tough new illegal immigration law, and concluding with the only plausible explanation: But even if one were to imagine that the Obama administration had a strong legal […]<\/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":[1454,846,143,1453,514,1451,1452],"class_list":["post-5828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-aclu","tag-arizona","tag-barack-obama","tag-department-of-justice","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-kris-kobach","tag-sb-1070"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828","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=5828"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5831,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828\/revisions\/5831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}