Immigration

On Thursday, Judge David Campbell of the Maricopa County Superior Court, acting on an order from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, ordered the state of Arizona to issue drivers licenses to Deferred Action Childhood Arrivals (DACA) beginning on Monday. Merry Christmas! Judge: Arizona dreamers can apply for licenses Monday:

Young immigrants known as dreamers will be able to begin applying for driver’s licenses on Monday, according to a court ruling handed down Thursday by U.S. District Court Judge David G. Campbell.

Campbell issued a preliminary injunction ordering Arizona to stop denying driver’s licenses to young immigrants known as dreamers.

The ruling means the state is now compelled to begin allowing dreamers who have received work permits through President Barack Obama’s 2012 deferred action program to apply for driver’s licenses.

George Wallace in a dress, Governor Jan Brewer, is sounding like a deranged parrot squawking “States rights! States rights! Awk!”

[I]n a statement issued Thursday evening, the outgoing governor made it clear she is not giving up the fight yet.

“The right to determine who is issued a driver license is reserved for the states – not the federal government or an unelected judiciary,” she said in the statement..

“It is important to remember that courts have yet to consider the full merits of the case, and I believe that Arizona will ultimately prevail. Consequently, I have instructed my legal team to move forward in pursuing a full review of this matter before the United States Supreme Court as soon as possible.”

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Small miracles in the Christmas season — today the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Governor Jan Brewer’s request to deny DREAMers a driver’s license out of hatred for people breathing while brown and spite for that Black man in the White House.

Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog reports, Court turns down Arizona on immigrant issue:

Over the dissents of three Justices, the Supreme Court today rejected Arizona’s request to allow it to deny driver’s licenses to young undocumented immigrants who have been permitted by Obama administration policy to remain in the United States.

In a brief order, the Court refused to block a temporary ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit requiring the state to issue driver’s licenses to the so-called “Dreamers” — young adults who came to this country illegally — if they have permits allowing them to have jobs here. Justices Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas said they would have granted the state’s request. There were no explanations by either the majority or the dissenters.

Arizona remains free to pursue a regular appeal to the Court.

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Governor Jan Brewer, aka George Wallace in a dress, in a final act of defiance against the federal “guvmint” before she rides off into the sunset, is letting her Confederate freak flag fly.

Earlier this week, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals told Brewer to go pound sand in response to her motion for stay of the Court’s order to allow Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) eligible DREAMers to obtain an Arizona drivers license during the pendency of Arizona’s lawsuit challenging President Obama’s executive order on DACA. Court moves closer to driver’s licenses for dreamers.

Consumed by hatred for people breathing while brown and spite for that Black man in the White House, Brewer has filed a motion for stay in the U.S. Supreme Court that almost reads like South Carolina’s Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify. States’ rights!

Justice Anthony Kennedy has called for a response to her application, to be filed by noon (Eastern time) next Tuesday, December 16.

Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog reports, Arizona tests delayed deportation policies:

State officials in Arizona, seeking to block undocumented immigrants from getting driver’s licenses even if they have been spared from deportation, asked the Supreme Court today to examine new Obama administration moves on immigration policy.  This marked the first time that the Court has been drawn into the tense national debate over President Obama’s actions on immigration without waiting for Congress to act on a new law.

The Arizona application (14A625) is here; a challenged decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is here.  A federal district court ruling in the case is here.

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