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#1 Jun 25 2012 at 8:42 AM Rating: Excellent
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No health care ruling will be handed down today. Instead we got...

-- A 5-4 decision that sentencing a minor to life without parole violates their 8th Amendment rights
-- A 5-4 decision striking down a Montana state law limiting corporate campaign contributions, thus strengthening the Citizen United ruling (since that was more federal and this ruling means states can not choose for themselves to restrict it further)
-- A 5-3 decision to strike most of Arizona's immigration law as an infringement upon the federal government. The bit about asking for proof of citizenship at traffic stops was not directly addressed and may be struck down in future racial profiling cases that were not part of this case. Justice Kagan sat this one out due to previous work on the case with the administration. The bits struck criminalized being in the country illegally and empowering state officers to arrest someone for immigration violations.

Health care to come on Thursday, I assume.

Edited, Jun 25th 2012 10:06am by Jophiel
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#2 Jun 25 2012 at 9:25 AM Rating: Good
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Minors have it easy. Smiley: mad
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#3 Jun 25 2012 at 10:00 AM Rating: Good
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I tried to read the actual decision on the Arizona immigration law, but I was having trouble finding a good online legal dictionary by the end of the first paragraph.
#4 Jun 25 2012 at 10:57 AM Rating: Good
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Last week, the SCOTUS ruled against the Cali Public Employee Unions practice of collecting fees from non-members for politicking. I'm ok with the basic decision. However, I think Alito over-stepped his jurisdiction by also declaring that the process needs to be one of an 'opt-in' versus the standard m.o. of the non-member employee having to opt out and/or seek reimbursement. Compound this with today's ruling striking down campaign contribution limits from corporations in MT and it could mean even tougher roads ahead for the unions.

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A correction/clarification no one likely cares about: mandatory life sentences for minors was deemed unconstitutional. They can still be meted out on an individual basis as the judge feels appropriate.

Edited, Jun 25th 2012 1:40pm by Jophiel
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#6 Jun 25 2012 at 3:07 PM Rating: Decent
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#7 Jun 26 2012 at 12:21 AM Rating: Decent
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Last week, the SCOTUS ruled against the Cali Public Employee Unions practice of collecting fees from non-members for politicking. I'm ok with the basic decision. However, I think Alito over-stepped his jurisdiction by also declaring that the process needs to be one of an 'opt-in' versus the standard m.o. of the non-member employee having to opt out and/or seek reimbursement. Compound this with today's ruling striking down campaign contribution limits from corporations in MT and it could mean even tougher roads ahead for the unions.



You can opt out of the unions(and their fees/dues) in the US? Lucky.
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#8 Jun 26 2012 at 6:23 AM Rating: Good
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Elinda wrote:
Last week, the SCOTUS ruled against the Cali Public Employee Unions practice of collecting fees from non-members for politicking. I'm ok with the basic decision. However, I think Alito over-stepped his jurisdiction by also declaring that the process needs to be one of an 'opt-in' versus the standard m.o. of the non-member employee having to opt out and/or seek reimbursement. Compound this with today's ruling striking down campaign contribution limits from corporations in MT and it could mean even tougher roads ahead for the unions.



You can opt out of the unions(and their fees/dues) in the US? Lucky.

Dues no - currently the unions can take dues from all employees covered by their bargaining i believe. This ruling was for fees used to lobby some legislation.
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#9 Jun 26 2012 at 8:55 AM Rating: Excellent
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I tried to read the actual decision on the Arizona immigration law, but I was having trouble finding a good online legal dictionary by the end of the first paragraph.

A good breakdown from ABC news blog, and in case that is perceived to have a liberal slant, I looked for Fox News' breakdown of the decision, but the closest I could come was this, which is a reprint of a Wall Street Journal article.

As a funny aside, here is an article highlighting Fox News vs. Fox News Latino's two different takes on the same story. Wonder how long these two can peacefully coexist. Maybe (hopefully) it will come to this:



Edited, Jun 26th 2012 9:55am by Atomicflea
#10 Jun 26 2012 at 9:00 AM Rating: Good
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There needs to be a Fantasy Anchorman MMA League.

I'd recruit Lou Dobbs.
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There needs to be a Fantasy Anchorman MMA League.

I'd recruit Lou Dobbs.


If you've ever read the comic strip "Dustin", they had about a 2 week storyline where the title character and his sister created a computer program that would simulate cage fights between political pundits. It was pretty funny.
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http://articles.cnn.com/2012-06-25/politics/politics_scotus-arizona-law_1_arizona-immigration-law-immigration-status-arizona-association?_s=PM:POLITICS

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President Barack Obama also expressed concern that immigration status checks allowed by Monday's ruling could lead to racial profiling by police. In a written statement, Obama said, "No American should ever live under a cloud of suspicion just because of what they look like."

Administration officials announced Thursday that they have canceled agreements that allowed some Arizona police departments to enforce federal immigration laws, and the Justice Department set up a telephone hotline and e-mail address for the public to report civil rights concerns about the law's enforcement.


I couldn't find a news article solely about this, mostly because I was too lazy (everything I found focused on Gov. Brewer's catty response, which isn't really "news").

So after the SCotUS upholds the so-called "show me your papers" portion of the Arizona law as constitutional and not pre-emptive of existing federal law, the White House all but removes Arizona's ability to enforce it. Sure, they said it was only because of "the department's policy of prioritizing how it spends its resources", and tied it back to the recent discretionary change in deportation enforcement policy, but the timing is hilariously suspect whether intentional or not.

ETA: It helps contextualize to add that this change in federal support effects only Arizona.

Edited, Jun 26th 2012 6:25pm by Demea
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I'm not sure what agreements they had with Arizona or what they have with other states but the point of the court case was that AZ was infringing upon federal duties with its laws. With the laws now struck, it would seem logical that there's less need for empowering state officers since the point was that they shouldn't HAVE that power in lieu of the feds.
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#14 Jun 26 2012 at 8:10 PM Rating: Decent
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Health care to come on Thursday, I assume.


They punt to 2014, big yawn, 9000 hours of meaningless news coverage.
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http://articles.cnn.com/2012-06-25/politics/politics_scotus-arizona-law_1_arizona-immigration-law-immigration-status-arizona-association?_s=PM:POLITICS

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President Barack Obama also expressed concern that immigration status checks allowed by Monday's ruling could lead to racial profiling by police. In a written statement, Obama said, "No American should ever live under a cloud of suspicion just because of what they look like."

Administration officials announced Thursday that they have canceled agreements that allowed some Arizona police departments to enforce federal immigration laws, and the Justice Department set up a telephone hotline and e-mail address for the public to report civil rights concerns about the law's enforcement.


I couldn't find a news article solely about this, mostly because I was too lazy (everything I found focused on Gov. Brewer's catty response, which isn't really "news").

So after the SCotUS upholds the so-called "show me your papers" portion of the Arizona law as constitutional and not pre-emptive of existing federal law, the White House all but removes Arizona's ability to enforce it. Sure, they said it was only because of "the department's policy of prioritizing how it spends its resources", and tied it back to the recent discretionary change in deportation enforcement policy, but the timing is hilariously suspect whether intentional or not.

ETA: It helps contextualize to add that this change in federal support effects only Arizona.

Edited, Jun 26th 2012 6:25pm by Demea

I'm not sure about what agreements AZ had with the feds that allowed them to enforce immigration laws, but calling it amnesty is ludicrous. The SOP of putting a detainer on someone in state custody for committing a crime and allowing that person to be picked up by immigration for being a criminal who is present illegally is still in place, as always. These people do not fall under the guidelines for prosecutorial discretion or the old Dream Act guidelines, so they're still out. If anything, it only enforces the current way of doing business. A lot of sound and fury, really.
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