As 10-20,000 bussed-in protesters from several states clogged up the streets of Phoenix on Saturday to march against Arizona’s federally based anti-illegal immigration law, Gov. Jan Brewer relieved the state’s attorney general from her legal team defending the law.
Gov. Brewer believes Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard has been conspiring with the Obama administration as it considers whether to sue her state.
Brewer issued a statement late Friday night saying her legal team will defend the state against lawsuits challenging the measure. She has cited a provision in the law that allows private attorneys to represent the state. The attorneys are already representing her in some of the legal challenges to the law in which she is named the defendant.
However, Arizona AG Goddard says Brewer can’t kick him off the case. Goddard’s top aide, Tim Nelson, said Saturday that the Governor can’t invoke the provision because it hasn’t taken effect yet. He also claimed that there are questions about its’ constitutionality.
Wha’ choo talkin’ ’bout, Willis? She’s the Governor. She’s in charge. 70 % of Arizona’s population support the law, per Rasmussen.
Gov. Brewer’s decision came after Justice Department officials met with Arizona’s AG. Goddard is a Democrat who will likely be challenging Brewer, a Republican, in her re-election bid. U.S. AG Eric Holder’s people met with Goddard before meeting with her legal team.
Also, in a blatantly arrogant snub, President Obama turned down Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s request to meet while she’s in Washington next week.
She will be in Washington to meet with other governors. Brewer announced Friday that she had asked to meet with Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to discuss border security and immigration. White House spokesman Adam Abrams claimed that Obama’s schedule “doesn’t allow for a meeting” with her but promised that the president “does intend to sit down with the governor in the future.” Uh huh.
After Scooter returns from his Chicago vacation on Tuesday, he is supposed to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Peru President Alan Garcia. On Wednesday, Obama is meeting with Gen. Ray Odierno, the top U.S. commander in Iraq. Then he’ll head to an event in Pittsburgh and host a concert at the White House to honor Paul McCartney.
Meeting with Peru’s President and honoring Sir Paul is certainly more important than meeting with Gov. Brewer about the out-of-control illegal immigration issue, isn’t it, Scooter? Wait, there’s more.
On Thursday, Obama is speaking at Hillary’s reception for a new partnership between U.S. and India. On Friday, the president will welcome the Major League Soccer men’s championship team, Real Salt Lake, to the White House.
And all this pomp and circumstance is more important than dealing with the situation that has led to violence and death against your own citizens, like Mr. Robert Krentz, Mr. President? Just how shallow and uncaring are you?
Regarding the Pro-Illegal Immigration Rally in Phoenix yesterday, I have a question. Who provided the money to get those protesters there? Who is funding the “National Day of Action”? Illegals normally send a bunch of the cash they make, back home to their families in poverty-stricken Mexico. Did the money come from certain “friends of Scooter” whose 4-letter acronym begins with “S” and ends in “U”? Enquiring minds want to know.
More “artists” have joined illegal immigration supporters, trying to display their inestimable intellectual prowess. Zack De La Rocha, from “Rage Against the Machine”, has formed the organization “Sound Strike” to side with Obama’s Far Left Machine against the citizens of Arizona. He’s recruited intellectual giants to join his group like Conor Oberst, Kanye West, Rage Against the Machine, Rise Against, Cypress Hill, Serj Tankian, Joe Satriani, Sonic Youth, Tenacious D (Jack Black), Street Sweeper Social Club and Michael Moore.
De la Roza compares the illegal immigration situation to Rosa Parks:
When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, they arrested her. As a result, people got together and said we are not going to ride the bus until they change the law. It was this courageous action that sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. What if we got together, signed a collective letter saying, ‘We’re not going to ride the bus?’ “
The group’s website includes a petition urging President Barack Obama to take action.
Meanwhile, last night at Tempe Diablo Stadium, supporters of Arizona’s new immigration law put the rest of the country and Mexico on notice Saturday:
We’re standing steady. You can’t shake us from our beliefs.
Pam Stephenson, director of the Arizona Tea Party, told a crowd of more than 5,000 people gathered there:
Together we will secure our border and get our nation back.
The new law is now a state law. If we catch anyone here illegally, we will arrest everybody and book them into jail. I’m not going to turn them over to ICE.
The rally drew participation from throughout Arizona, including Terrance Lang of America’s Black Shield, a California-based advocacy group that supports civil rights and economic empowerment for Black minorities. He said his group takes a different point of view than that of other Black civil-rights leaders who have spoken out against Arizona.:
We believe in the rule of law.
Sources: drudgereport.com, cnn.com, foxnews.com, azcentral.com
Great post, KJ. I’m putting it on my wall.
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Great blog, love the Obama Travel agenda. Won’t meet with Jindahl on the oil crisis, and won’t meet with Brewer !on immigration. “Cold as Ice”!
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We heard on the radio about ‘tens of thousands’ of ‘protesters’ that would be there for this thing. You had to listen harder for the counter-protesters in Tempe. And of course, made out to seem that the ‘protesters’ were patriotic Arizonans.
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Spot on, as usual, KJ…..I just wonder how many of these ‘protestors’ actually READ the bill? Or did they just decide to be bused in like sheep because of their ‘feelings’?
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Ultimately, Brewer doesn’t need Obama. She offered him the courtesy of a call and an invitation to discussion and he, being the bastard that he is, refused. This will only strengthen her resolve as she moves forward on her crusade to root out lawlessness from her beleaguered State.
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Man, the rent-a-mob business sure is booming under this Precedent. These must be the people being counted when the Labor Dept’s new jobs report comes out each month…
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I would like to remind the President that our hair is on fire and he needs to take care of some big problems right here in River City. He wanted to be President so bad (or did he?) he can’t seem to get his priorities in check. I guess these emergencies get in the way of his golf game and parties.
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