Federal Goverment
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Publicado: 8 de diciembre de 2012
1. What was the main issue to be determined? (5 points)
2. What was the ruling of the court (vote split in favor of...)? (10 points)
3. Why didn't all nine justices votein this case? Who didn't vote and why? (5 points)
4. What is your summary of the legal reasoning of the majority opinion? (10 points)
5. At the bottom of the webpage, youwill see which justices voted in favor of the law. Who is perhaps the most surprising vote within the majority? (5 points)
6. How does this case demonstrate that Supreme Courtdecisions are above politics? (See page 508 in WTP for clarification on this question.) (15 points)
1. The main Issue to be determined is whether four different provisions ofthe state law are proved invalid by federal immigration law. According to the reading those four points would be : (1) created a state-law crime for being unlawfully present in theUnited States, (2) created a state-law crime for working or seeking work while not authorized to do so, (3) required state and local officers to verify the citizenship or alienstatus of anyone who was lawfully arrested or detained, and (4) authorized warrantless arrests of aliens believed to be removable from the United States. Specially part four since itconflicts with the 4th amendment.
2. The ruling of the Supreme Court was that parts I, 2 and 4 mentioned above of the SB 1070 are constitutional, enough for the law to go intoeffect. But part 4 did not pass the appeal and was considered unconstitutional in a 5-3 ruling.
3. Justice Elena Kagan didn’t vote because she was U.S. solicitor general whenthe federal government sued Arizona.
4. The majority of the justices voted that is was unconstitutional to search an individual without a warrant just because of
5. I
2. What was the ruling of the court (vote split in favor of...)? (10 points)
3. Why didn't all nine justices votein this case? Who didn't vote and why? (5 points)
4. What is your summary of the legal reasoning of the majority opinion? (10 points)
5. At the bottom of the webpage, youwill see which justices voted in favor of the law. Who is perhaps the most surprising vote within the majority? (5 points)
6. How does this case demonstrate that Supreme Courtdecisions are above politics? (See page 508 in WTP for clarification on this question.) (15 points)
1. The main Issue to be determined is whether four different provisions ofthe state law are proved invalid by federal immigration law. According to the reading those four points would be : (1) created a state-law crime for being unlawfully present in theUnited States, (2) created a state-law crime for working or seeking work while not authorized to do so, (3) required state and local officers to verify the citizenship or alienstatus of anyone who was lawfully arrested or detained, and (4) authorized warrantless arrests of aliens believed to be removable from the United States. Specially part four since itconflicts with the 4th amendment.
2. The ruling of the Supreme Court was that parts I, 2 and 4 mentioned above of the SB 1070 are constitutional, enough for the law to go intoeffect. But part 4 did not pass the appeal and was considered unconstitutional in a 5-3 ruling.
3. Justice Elena Kagan didn’t vote because she was U.S. solicitor general whenthe federal government sued Arizona.
4. The majority of the justices voted that is was unconstitutional to search an individual without a warrant just because of
5. I
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