[Peace-discuss] [Peace] Partial victory against SB 1070. Protest is still on!

[Karen Medina]

I believe the issue came before the judge because of massive public pressure.

I do not believe the judgement to be a result of public pressure, but
rather the judging.

-karen medina

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Ron Szoke <r-szoke at illinois.edu> wrote:
>
> "Friends,
> In response to massive public pressure by immigrants' rights
> activists, the U.S. District Court judge Susan Bolton has struck down
> the most egregious provisions of SB 1070 in Arizona."
>
> Do you have any evidence that her ruling was influenced in any degree
> whatever by such pressure, & not entirely by the intrinsic constitutional
> & legal merits of the case?
>
> Do you think she, & other federal judges, can be intimidated by ever
> greater displays of "massive public pressure by immigrants' rights
> activists"?
>
> -- Ron
>



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karen medina
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