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Supreme Court Strikes Down, Upholds Parts of Arizona Immigration Law

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, III

June 25, 2012

In Arizona v. the United States, the Supreme Court has ruled that Arizona police can check the immigration status of suspected illegal immigrants -- the part of SB 1070 some have feared would lead to racial profiling of Hispanics -- but cannot make federal immigration violations crimes under state law. So while the heart of SB 1070 stands, the Obama administration has scored two big victories: 1.) a state law can be preempted even when it has the "same aim as federal law and adopts its substantive standards" and 2.) the federal government has wide discretion in how to enforce immigration law.

Obama's Fast and Furious Blunder

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, III

June 20, 2012

President Barack Obama intervened today in an attempt to avert a House Oversight Committee vote on contempt action against Attornery General Eric Holder.

Obama asserted executive privilege over the documents related to Fast and Furious. Previously, the Justice Department really gave no legal rationale for not handing them over. While this may suceed in keeping the documents in legal limbo, there are two problems with this approach. The first is that this hasn't stopped Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa from pressing ahead with the contempt vote. The second problem is that this has gotten the mainstream media to cover Operation Fast and Furious, at least in passing.

Bain v. Solyndra

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, III

May 29, 2012

Today on the main site, I covered Barack Obama's attempt to resurrect Ted Kennedy's 1994 Bain attacks against Mitt Romney.

Kennedy was able to derail Romney's Senate campaign by portraying his Republican challenger as a profiteering job destroyer. Yet Obama is running into some trouble getting history to repeat itself. One complication I didn't mention in my column is the president's own record of crony capitalism.

RNC Warns Nevada GOP About Ron Paul Supporters

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, III

May 3, 2012

In a letter obtained by the Las Vegas Sun, the Republican National Committee's chief counsel warns the Nevada GOP chairman that if Ron Paul supporters sweep the state convention and wind up taking too many delegate slots it could affect the seating of the state's delegation in Tampa.

Nancy Pelosi's Constitution

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, III

April 19, 2012

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi -- the speaker of the House when Obamacare was passed -- has an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune highlighting her constitutional confusion.

Thinking she has spotted Republican inconsistency, she raps jurisdiction stripping (or "court stripping," as she calls it) while also hinting the Supreme Court shouldn't overturn the federal health care law. Nowhere in her column does Pelosi actually grapple with two issues: the fact that Article III, giving Congress the power to regulate the jurisdiction of federal courts, is actually in the Constitution; she does not identify the constitutionally enumerated power that gives federal government the authority mandate the purchase of health insurance or otherwise implement Obamacare. (Pelosi is also oddly silent on the jurisdiction-stripping in federal laws designed to combat terrorism and restrict habeus corpus appeals in death penalty cases.)

Gridlock Isn't To Blame for Senate Budget Failures

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, III

April 19, 2012

Imagine if Paul Ryan had produced his budget proposal and put it before his committee, but then John Boehner killed it, insisting that the House should not pass a budget of any kind so that his members could be spared a difficult vote in an election year.

But when Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad proposed holding a vote on a budget based on the Simpson-Bowles commission recommendations -- the first meaningful budget vote by Senate Democrats in three years -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid promptly pulled out the rug from under him. The Senate will continue to flout its legal responsibility to pass a federal budget.

Hatch Despises the 'Radical Libertarians' Who Oppose Him

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, III

April 13, 2012

Orrin Hatch is spitting mad about conservatives working against his renomination to the U.S. Senate. The six-term Republican incumbent from Utah denounced them in an interview with NPR.

Constitutional Contempt

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, Iii

March 29, 2012

Why the Obama legal team struggled at the Supreme Court.

After three days of arguments before the Supreme Court, the Obama administration and its supporters have been found in contempt. Not of the court, but of the Constitution.

Obamacare Defense A 'Train Wreck'

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, III

March 27, 2012

Reports indicate that five of the nine Supreme Court justices seemed skeptical of the individual mandate's constitutionality and analysts across the political spectrum concluded that the Obama legal team lost this round.

TARP Has Lost Its Sting?

The American Spectator

by W. James Antle, III

March 27, 2012

USA Today asks if the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), which helped give rise to the Tea Party, has receded as a political issue this year.

The primary bit of evidence is that Mitt Romney has emerged from his support for the $700 Wall Street bailout. I leave it to readers to decide whether a candidate who has struggled to win the Republican nomination despite massive organizational and financial advantages over disorganized and underfunded opponents who in most cycles would have dropped out by now, after several months of trailing a revolving door of political nobodies in the national polls, is truly "unscathed."

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