A New Look at the Federal Suit Against Arizona’s Immigration Law
Instead of “dictatorship” it could also be a symbol of “draconian” measures to actually enforce the immigration laws as written by congress. Do you really mean to argue or imply that an elected legislative body is a dictatorship when no future elections have been ended or when the right to judicial review has not been suspended? The last I looked, only congress has the power to suspend the right to judicial review and declare martial law, so I suppose that makes Lincoln the first and last American dictator–in so far that he suspended the courts, locked up people for the duration of the war without judicial review, or took private property (“freeing the slaves”) by executive fiat rather than through judicial or congressional authorization. Maybe that progressive FDR comes close with his mass interment of Japanese Americans in concentration camps during WW2, which was approved by the Supreme Court.
