THE ROBING ROOM

If some of the racists below actually read Judge Bolton's careful and studied decision, their petulant outbursts might be less laughable. Comment # 11391 below, claiming that she lacked jurisdiction in this case, only shows the lack of basic reading skills among the anti-immigrant racists on this site: Art III s. 1 states that 'The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.' Art III s. 2 then states that 'the judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States.' Thus, an inferior federal court clearly has jurisdiction over the challenge to SB 1070 unless something else in the constitution takes that jurisdiction away. Art III s. 2 also says 'In [those] cases in which a state shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction.' But it does not say that the Supreme Court has 'exclusive' original jurisdiction. The Framers used the word 'exclusive' throughout the document. Clearly, if they intended the Supreme Court to have exclusive jurisdiction here, they would have said as much. Unfortunately, poorly reasoned posts below suggest that the Constitution should be bent and stretched to accommodate their hateful views. Happily, Judge Bolton did not buy it.