This afternoon, in a long-awaited decision, federal district court judge Susan Bolton enjoined several major provisions of Arizona’s immigration law, SB-1070. While it was speculated that Bolton would block parts of SB-1070 relating to warrantless arrests and document requirements, the judge also ended up striking down the law’s most controversial and significant provision: the requirement that police check immigration status. Bolton blocked the following sections of SB-1070 arguing that “the United States is likely to succeed on the merits in showing that…[they] are preempted by federal law” and the “United States is likely to suffer irreparable harm” in the absence of an injunction:
U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton Puts on Hold Key Provisions in Arizona Illegal Immigration Bill Many Fear will Lead to Racial Profiling
Posted on: 28-07-2010
Category : Politic
This is one of those weeks when I love my job.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, I love my job plenty, but when you get to talk to people day after day about an ongoing controversy that really includes very little middle ground, and has contending opponents and supporters offering two very different versions of the very same place, it just provides the kind of juicy challenge many reporters love.
Sachin Tendulkar extended his world record to 48 Test centuries as India battled to avoid the follow-on in the second match of the series against Sri Lanka in Colombo on Wednesday.
The 37-year-old “Little Master” was unbeaten on 108 at the end of the third day, with the tourists on 382-4 — still 60 runs away from making Sri Lanka have to bat again.
He had added 141 with debutant Suresh Raina, who also reached stumps with a patient 66 off 131 balls.
MILWAUKEE — NASCAR team owner Jack Roush was in serious but stable condition after walking away from a plane crash in Wisconsin on Tuesday night.
“There are injuries. Possible surgery,” Roush Fenway Racing president Geoff Smith said in a text message to The Associated Press. “But he walked out of the plane.”
Smith confirmed that the plane belonged to Roush, and he was flying it. Smith said Roush’s injuries include facial lacerations.
Pac 12 Logo, NEW YORK – For years, people in the Pac-10 – from players to fans – have complained of a lack of recognition and so-called East Coast bias that caused the conference to be underestimated at the national level.
Commissioner Larry Scott, who grew up in New York on Long Island, he decided that instead of complaining that it was time for the league to do something about it.
Khayri williams clark:3 NJ teens charged with videotaped immigrant death
Posted on: 28-07-2010
Category : News
Khayri Williams Clark, (Associated Press:) — Dusk fell around Mazaniego Abelino Salvadoran immigrants while sitting on a bench on a promenade in a high-class suburb of New York after finishing his shift restaurant. When the night invades, so did a group of teenagers, including one with a video camera cell phone in hand.
Then, authorities say, they beat him unconscious, with the camera rolling.
