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(Pat Oliphant, via gocomics.com)

Most Of "Papers Please" Law Struck Down

Today, the Supreme Court struck down three-fourths of the controversial "papers please" Arizona state law, but retained the provision that permits law enforcement to check the immigration status of individuals stopped for traffic violations, etc...for now. It's expected that once that provision is actually implemented, it will be challenged and found to be discriminatory.

Arizona's finger-wagging wingnut Gov. Jan "Witches" Brewer tried to put the best spin on the part of the law that remains -- until challenged -- but it's a clear rebuke to the far right white nativists that populate the Rethuglican / New Confederate Party. So where does weathervane weirdo Willard "Self-Deportation" Romney stand on the decision? Willard won't say, and irony of ironies, he's in Arizona today at a fundraiser.

(photo: Witches Brewer puts on her happy face)

Implementing Arizona's "Papers Please" Law

Arizona police official Major Strasser, center, confronts a suspicious person: "I demand to see your papers."

Quote of the Week

"[W]here was the Tea Party crowd? Isn't the whole premise of the Tea Party movement that overreaching government poses a threat to individual freedom? It seems to me a law allowing individuals to be detained and interrogated on a whim -- and requiring legal residents to carry identification, as in a police state -- would send the Tea Partyers into apoplexy. Or is there some kind of exception if the people whose freedoms are being taken away happen to have brown skin and speak Spanish?" -- Eugene Robinson in today's Kaplan Daily, on the racial profiling immigration law recently passed by extremist right-wingers in the Arizona legislature.