Busted: Lawyers for illegal aliens try controlling the language in Arizona courts

John Feere:

...Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Ruth McGregor has advanced the demands of the Arizona Hispanic Bar Association by moving to ban the following language from all of the state’s courtrooms:

Aliens
Illegal aliens
Resident or non-resident aliens
Illegal immigrants
Illegal immigration
Illegals
Immigration epidemic
Immigration crisis
Immigrant invasion
Pro-illegal immigration activists
Open borders advocates
Anchor babies
Proponents for amnesty

Many of these terms have a precedent in the law that reaches back to the origins of this country.  The first five terms are used repeatedly throughout federal immigration statutes and case law.

Caught, they’re backpedalling.  AZ Supreme Court communications director Carie Gerchick:

“A letter was sent in from an organization, a local legal organization, asking a court to essentially ban the use of those words.  Under no circumstances did the Chief Justice McGregor ban any words.”

That’s after threatening to sue Judicial Watch for breaking the story.  And according to John Feere at the Center for Immigration Studies (source for the above quotes), the judge did “forward the request to all lower courts.”

So the question before the house:  Say you’re the judge of some state court. And you get a “Dear colleague” letter from the Chief Justice of your state’s Supreme Court.  Now it’s not really an order.  But what’s the likelihood that you’ll ignore it?


Elsewhere: 

Via:  “It’s Vintage, Duh” at doubleplusundead

Posted by: Old Grouch in Linkage at 00:45:58 GMT | No Comments | Add Comment
Post contains 246 words, total size 5 kb.