The New American By Selwyn Duke
With “each decision … unabashedly based not on law,” the Court moves “one step closer to being reminded of [its] impotence,” warned late Justice Antonin Scalia in his Obergefell v. Hodges dissent (2015). Now, a decade later, the judiciary has just gotten a major reminder.
That is, an Obama-appointed activist judge recently “ordered” Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier to halt a state immigration law’s enforcement. And the people-elected realist Uthmeier has responded, saying, in essence:
Go pound sand.
As Fox News reported Friday:
The law allows for misdemeanor charges against illegal immigrants who enter Florida and hope to avoid federal immigration officials.
“The judge wants me to put my stamp of approval on an order prohibiting all state law enforcement from enforcing Florida’s immigration laws when no law enforcement are party to the lawsuit,” he [Uthmeier] said, as the ACLU’s suit is being adjudicated before Obama-appointed Miami federal judge Kathleen Williams.
“I’m just not going to do that. We believe the court has overstepped and lacks jurisdiction there, and I will not tell law enforcement to stop fulfilling their constitutional duties,” Uthmeier … told Fox News Digital.
“… The ACLU is dead set on obstructing President Donald Trump’s efforts to detain and deport illegals, and we are going to fight back. We will vigorously defend our laws and advance President Trump’s agenda on illegal immigration.”
The lawsuit that spurred the injunction alleges Florida’s law violates the Supremacy Clause….
Read Full Article Here…(thenewamerican.com)
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