Arizona lawman 1st to challenge Obama’s executive actions on amnesty.
A lawyer representing Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, in his precedent-setting lawsuit against President Obama’s immigration executive actions is asking the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision not to hear his case while accepting a similar case brought by Texas and 25 other states.
The motion submitted to the Supreme Court argues the justices are violating their own past practice and evaluating Arpaio’s case based on personal rather than legal reasons.
Attorney Larry Klayman of Freedom Watch wrote the petition that the granting of a hearing in the states’ case but not in Arpaio’s is “in conflict with this court’s well-established practice of relying upon conflicts among the circuits to better inform this court’s considerations – creates the appearance that the court is evaluating and passing judgment upon the parties rather than the legal issues which parties bring before the courts.”
“Indeed, this has already been the message of public commentary. The court gives the impression that it merely disfavors a party before the federal courts, lawfully elected sheriff of one of the nation’s largest counties at four million residents, larger than 22 states, Sheriff Arpaio and/or his legal counsel.”
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