By: Daniel Nardini
One name I have been seeing pop out in a number of publications is the Liberty Legal Foundation. Who are they? They are an ultra-conservative (read: right wing) legal organization. They have a number of issues they want to change—one of them is getting current U.S. President Barack Obama out of the White House. This organization had fired a number of lawsuits alleging that Obama is not a U.S. citizen and as such he should be thrown out of the White House. All of these lawsuits have failed, and have cost the American taxpayer a bundle. They are now trying to legally repeal the health care reform law that was passed in 2010. And they are trying to do this even after the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the health care reform is constitutional.
But this is not my main beef with them. I am especially concerned that these people are going after the undocumented with a vengeance. These people believe that the federal government should be allowing the states to enforce immigration law rather than stop it. Like everything else though, our immigration law is a mess, and the fact that a few of the states are trying to create their own versions of U.S. immigration law to enforce is bad medicine because if every state has their own immigration law then not only will there be no uniformity in immigration law but that the rights of all immigrants—whether legal or undocumented—will be completely violated. Is this what we as a country and people should tolerate? Sadly, the Liberty Legal Foundation is using the legal system to essentially smash up the legal system. Or at least try to establish a precedent so that it will clog the legal system with contradictory landmark decisions.
What I am seeing here is a conspiracy of a growing number of right wing organizations and individuals who live in a shadow world trying to use whatever means to change and yes trash the U.S. Constitution. Whether it be in a courtroom, or in the halls of state government, or even out in the streets, a growing number of political right wing groups—working in loose cooperation—are trying to tear down the machinery of government and erect pseudo-legal mechanisms that will do more to take away the rights of certain Americans so that they will have no real protections. Making state immigration laws, passing laws to deny certain groups of people work, and sadly street violence are among the means by which such groups get their way. And when these groups and individuals become too well connected, then what will we do? As this election year is about to go into the final round, I have to wonder we are heading towards a rightward putsch, or simply postponing it?
The Liberty Legal Foundation
By: Daniel Nardini
But this is not my main beef with them. I am especially concerned that these people are going after the undocumented with a vengeance. These people believe that the federal government should be allowing the states to enforce immigration law rather than stop it. Like everything else though, our immigration law is a mess, and the fact that a few of the states are trying to create their own versions of U.S. immigration law to enforce is bad medicine because if every state has their own immigration law then not only will there be no uniformity in immigration law but that the rights of all immigrants—whether legal or undocumented—will be completely violated. Is this what we as a country and people should tolerate? Sadly, the Liberty Legal Foundation is using the legal system to essentially smash up the legal system. Or at least try to establish a precedent so that it will clog the legal system with contradictory landmark decisions.
What I am seeing here is a conspiracy of a growing number of right wing organizations and individuals who live in a shadow world trying to use whatever means to change and yes trash the U.S. Constitution. Whether it be in a courtroom, or in the halls of state government, or even out in the streets, a growing number of political right wing groups—working in loose cooperation—are trying to tear down the machinery of government and erect pseudo-legal mechanisms that will do more to take away the rights of certain Americans so that they will have no real protections. Making state immigration laws, passing laws to deny certain groups of people work, and sadly street violence are among the means by which such groups get their way. And when these groups and individuals become too well connected, then what will we do? As this election year is about to go into the final round, I have to wonder we are heading towards a rightward putsch, or simply postponing it?