W. James Antle III
Yesterday Jeff noted that the Obama administration had suspended its 287(g) immigration enforcement parternship with the state of Arizona, in an apparent slap at the portion of SB 1070 that the Supreme Court actually upheld. These are the agreements that…
Orrin Hatch isn’t the only incumbent in uncharted territory today. Here’s the lowdown on former House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel: Rep. Charlie Rangel is fighting for the Democratic nomination in a newly redrawn New York district after…
The majority opinion in the Arizona ruling asserts that once something is a federal prerogative, states should stay out of legislating on the issue even if they are trying to accomplish the same objective as the feds. At one point,…
Mitt Romney’s campaign has been trying very hard to criticizing the Supreme Court’s Arizona decision without taking a firm position on the substantive results. Romney spokesman Rick Gorka had a painful exchange with reporters on the subject. GORKA: “The governor…
During the Republican primaries, the exit polls showed little interest in illegal immigration. In the key swing state of Ohio, only 5 percent of GOP voters considered it the most important issue. In Florida, it was just 3 percent. The…
In Arizona v. the United States, the Supreme Court has ruled that Arizona police can check the immigration status of suspected illegal immigrants — the part of SB 1070 some have feared would lead to racial profiling of Hispanics —…
Today’s rulings offer us a glimpse of what to expect when the Supreme Court rules on Obamacare. 1. The decision will come Thursday. 2. Anthony Kennedy, who has written eight decisions including today’s Arizona ruling, is unlikely to author this…
On the heels of Mitt Romney’s immigration speech yesterday, his campaign has released a video listing what it describes as broken promises to Hispanic voters generally and the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials specifically.
Yesterday Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney released a plan that is designed to make distinction between legal and illegal immigration — and also to defuse a damned if you do, damned if you don’t political issue. The key points: Romney…
Via Rod Dreher, I see that longtime marital traditionalist David Blankenhorn now supports same-sex marriage. Blankenhorn writes: Marriage is the planet’s only institution whose core purpose is to unite the biological, social and legal components of parenthood into one lasting…
