The U.S. Supreme Court was expected to rule on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. ObamaCare) today, but that ruling will probably now happen at 10am on Thursday.
Monday, June 25, 2012
SCOTUS Strikes Down (Most Of) AZ's SB 1070
The U.S. Supreme Court was expected to rule on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. ObamaCare) today, but that ruling will probably now happen at 10am on Thursday.
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Soñia Sotomayor, the Latina justice, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the ACLU justice, both voted to support "papers please". Do you care to comment on that?
Yes. As I intimated, the USSC only struck down the parts of SB 1070 which on their face violate the U.S. constitution. The "papers, please" law, in practice, almost certainly violates the Constitution but just by looking at it one could say that theoretically it is not discriminatory.
However it is almost certain that Arizona will apply the law in a way that discriminates on the basis of race, ethnicity and national origin, at which case the law will almost be certainly struck down by the USSC.
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