Posted by
Roxanna M. on Wednesday, October 06, 2010 1:16:49 PM
As everyone knows, Arizona is currently being sued by the Obama/Holder justice department because, when you eliminate all the fancy language and get right down to it, Arizona thinks the federal government is doing a lousy job of protecting it and wants to protect itself. Despite the fact that the Obama administration has actually ceded parts of this country to hostile foreign forces, it has decided that Arizona should just learn to live with it.
Even though - constitutionally speaking - the case should be in the Supreme Court, Arizona lost Round 1 in the District Court in Arizona and is now headed for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, which has jurisdiction in the western states.
As everyone knows, the Ninth Circuit is the most reviled, rebuked, reversed court in the country, regularly getting slapped down by the U.S. Supreme Court, sometimes more than once in the same case.
Right now, 11 countries in Central and South America are seeking permission to file briefs against Arizona, presumably to lambaste the state for daring to try to protect itself from the predators swarming over the border.
What right do these countries have to interfere in the American justice system? What right do they have to say anything about a state making laws to protect and defend itself and its people?
Neither Obama/Holder nor the Ninth should allow these countries to participate. However, Obama/Holder have not shown much interest in putting America and Americans first, as their suit against Arizona so amply demonstrates. And, I'm sure that the overpaid/overweening/underwhelming justices at the Ninth are just itching to allow these countries to participate, since it is a leftist dream to allow our courts to start applying foreign law. With actual foreign participants, this case is as good as any to get things moving in that direction.
I would so love to be wrong.