Reply #26: According to the Governor, this law does no authorize or empower AZ LEO's

[No Elephants]

to engage in racial profiling. Yet, in reality, the law is aimed at undocumented Mexicans, even though it theoretically applies to undocumented Swedes or Canadians as well. And officers can be sued for NOT enforcing it. So, in reality, they are going to profile on the basis of ethnic origin.

As far as the SCCOTUS, it's currently mostly RW activists claiming to be originalists and strict constructionists, who recently claimed with a straight face that the Framers meant for corporations to have the protection of the First Amendment.


Much of what the current Court does is highly predictable, if you know the Republican Party line. Almost nothing this SCOTUS does is really very interesting, with the possible exception of how much these Justices are willing to lie through their teeth and jump through hoops in order to get to the RW result they want in the case at hand.

Sound off, one, two.