My good friend Ben Lusty published a piece on Congressional use of it’s funding power to influence education policy in the states. Because I feel like the tension between the states and federal government merits scrutiny, especially when money is at issue, I have reprinted Ben’s piece here with his permission. Congress’ education bailout is bad […]
Immigration Debate: Federal or state purview?
August 9, 2010 by
Image by Renegade98 via Flickr Recently, the local Deseret News has seen debate on its opinion page, and carried over in the Facebook-sphere, on the immigration issue, especially as it relates to whether immigration policy is the purview of states or the federal government, and in many respects, it returns to Constitutional interpretation by the […]
How would SCOTUS rule on S1070?
July 30, 2010 by
Image by Sundials by Carmichael via Flickr Historically, conservative justices, with their stricter interpretation of the Constitution, have viewed immigration policy as the exclusive purview of the federal government. That means both ideological factions on the court may be hostile to Arizona’s defense of S1070. From AZ Capitol Times Related articles by Zemanta “Immigration law […]
AZ immigration law stopped–for now.
July 28, 2010 by
Image by lungstruck via Flickr Susan Bolton made the news, whether she wanted to or not. U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton, that is. U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton halted implementation of the parts of the law that require police to determine the immigration status of people they stop and think are in the country illegally. […]
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