{"id":7834,"date":"2014-10-15T17:06:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T21:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=7834"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:40:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:40:50","slug":"the-aclu-again-uses-the-9th-circuit-to-undermine-the-voters-intent-and-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/10\/15\/the-aclu-again-uses-the-9th-circuit-to-undermine-the-voters-intent-and-will\/","title":{"rendered":"The ACLU Again Uses the 9th Circuit to Undermine the Voters Intent and Will"},"content":{"rendered":"
On Wednesday, the 9th<\/sup> Circuit Federal Court of Appeals struck down a voter approved amendment to the Arizona Constitution that required the state to detain illegal aliens accused of serious felonies until trial. The case is Lopez-Valenzuela v. Arpaio<\/i>, and once again the ACLU has successfully used a class action lawsuit to undermine legitimate efforts to ensure illegal immigration is deterred.<\/p>\n The amendment passed with 78 percent of the vote in 2006. This was a strong indication of voter interest in 1) ensuring illegal aliens who commit felonies show up for trial, and 2) ensuring that people with no right to be in the country do not flee before deportation. The court used the bogus pseudo-reasoning behind what\u2019s called \u201csubstantive due process\u201d to engage in a subjective bit of policy gamesmanship to strike down the constitutional amendment. This area of \u201csubstantive due process\u201d has become nothing more than an arbitrary vehicle by which a court is allowed to substitute its political judgment for that of the voters (or legislators as the case may be).<\/p>\n