{"id":3368,"date":"2010-06-29T11:41:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T16:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=3368"},"modified":"2010-06-29T11:42:43","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T16:42:43","slug":"mark-krikorian-brings-up-ythat-awful-truth-on-premption-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/29\/mark-krikorian-brings-up-ythat-awful-truth-on-premption-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Krikorian brings up that awful truth on premption again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>NRO<\/em><\/p>\n<p>June 24, 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nTwo and Two Is Five<\/strong>   [Mark Krikorian]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A number of House Republicans have written to Sen. Jeff Sessions requesting that he ask Elena Kagan about her role, as solicitor general, in the Obama administration\u2019s request that the Supreme Court overturn Arizona\u2019s 2007 immigration law. That measure required use of E-Verify for all employers in the state as a condition of having a business license. This is important in judging Kagan\u2019s likely propensity for judicial activism, because even the Ninth Circuit upheld that Arizona law.<\/p>\n<p>The administration is now claiming that the 2007 Arizona state law (signed by Janet Napolitano) is preempted by federal law, but when you look at the statute in question (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/8\/usc_sec_08_00001324---a000-.html\">8 USC 1324a<\/a>), there is simply no way to argue such a thing in good faith. The relevant section says this:<\/p>\n<p>Preemption<\/p>\n<p>The provisions of this section preempt any State or local law imposing civil or criminal sanctions (other than through licensing and similar laws) upon those who employ, or recruit or refer for a fee for employment, unauthorized aliens.<\/p>\n<p>I think \u201cother than through licensing\u201d is pretty obviously about, you know, licensing, which is what the Arizona law deals with. So the administration\u2019s brief to the Supreme Court (which Kagan apparently helped draft) isn\u2019t just mistaken or trying to bootstrap something by talking about emanations and penumbras. It\u2019s an unambiguous example of bad faith, of trying to use the courts to overturn something explicitly permitted by statute. This is a brazen attempt at subverting democratic governance.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s next? When the 22nd amendment says \u201cNo person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice,\u201d it doesn\u2019t really mean twice? Where Article 1, Sec. 2 says \u201cNo person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty five years,\u201d it doesn\u2019t mean 25?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=YWVhYWUyNjIyYjAzZGI4ZGNkZjdiNGZkOGM4OWVlNzA=\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NRO June 24, 2010 Two and Two Is Five [Mark Krikorian] A number of House Republicans have written to Sen. Jeff Sessions requesting that he ask Elena Kagan about her role, as solicitor general, in the Obama administration\u2019s request that the Supreme Court overturn Arizona\u2019s 2007 immigration law. That measure required use of E-Verify for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}