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The Awful Reason Obama Is Delaying Immigration Reform
White House officials said this week that Obama plans to delay any potential executive action on immigration until after the midterm elections. Watch the vid...
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With the rise of ISIS and the looming threat of American involvement in another foreign conflict, the nation has shifted its attention away from immigration reform and onwards to the Middle East. However, as 2016 slowly creeps closer, immigration reform will undoubtedly be one of the strongest firing points for both parties when it comes to the presidential election.
In a recent poll conducted by Politico, participants were asked numerous questions that sought to observe how the national perspective of immigration reform is centered. The poll was conducted between Aug. 29 and Sept. 7, making it one of the latest to come out after congress entered its break period.
The first question sought to direct the participants' attention to the president and his direct handling of the issue of immigration. 64 percent of participants disapproved of the way that President Obama has handled the situation, while only 35 percent approved.
One of the underlying problems with polls is that they pose 'yes' or 'no' questions without allowing the participant to explain the reasoning behind their verdict. There is never the opportunity for the public to explain how they would tackle immigration reform and what they would do differently than President Obama.
The trend against the Democrats continued when 34 percent compared to 31 percent felt that the Republican Party could handle immigration reform better. This will be an important faction with the mid-term elections coming up in Nov. When asked if immigration reform was an important issue that would affect the midterms, 75 percent to 25 percent felt that the issue was of extreme importance.
Depending on the midterms, President Obama could find it far more difficult to do business with Congress. The House already has a GOP majority and if the Senate were to fall to the Republicans then President Obama will either be forced to compromise or use executive orders (more than he already has).
What the poll did confirm was that the American public is behind "comprehensive immigration reform" 66 to 33 percent. The problem is that "comprehensive" is not defined in the poll, and both parties have thrown the word back and forth. Public opinion understands that reform is necessary, but a literal plan on how to get the nation there remains unknown.
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It wasnt part of the jobs message he planned to pitch, but Speaker John Boehner said Thursday that immigration reform would help boost the economy.
Immigration reform will help our economy, but youve got to secure the border first, the Ohio Republican said after a speech at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute. Weve got a mess and everyone knows weve got a mess.
His immigration comments, in response to an audience question, werent part of his prepared remarks. They followed a 20-minute-speech in which Boehner laid out his five-point plan to jump-start Americas economy.
The AEI address served as the GOPs closing argument before the November midterm elections and came just as the House was wrapping up its final day of votes before sprinting to the campaign trail.
Boehner didnt offer many surprises in his speech: He called for fixing the U.S. tax code, cutting spending, reforming the legal system, reining in federal regulations and boosting education.
And the Speaker said opening up more areas for oil exploration and building the Keystone XL pipeline would really get our economy humming.
We do these five things in a meaningful way, along with the coming energy boom, we can reset the foundation of our economy for the next two or three generations and beyond, Boehner said.
Boehner argued that GOPs first priority should be tax reform. He said all the focus on so-called corporate inversions where U.S. corporations buy foreign companies and move their headquarters abroad to avoid taxes was short-sighted.
Inversions are really just visible symptoms of a much deeper problem: our tax code is terrible. No one understands it, certainly not the IRS, Boehner said. So all this talk about inversions is just making the problem smaller.
Its fussing over a divot when the road is loaded with potholes.
It wasnt part of the jobs message he planned to pitch, but Speaker John Boehner said Thursday that immigration reform would help boost the economy.
Immigration reform will help our economy, but youve got to secure the border first, the Ohio Republican said after a speech at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute. Weve got a mess and everyone knows weve got a mess.
His immigration comments, in response to an audience question, werent part of his prepared remarks. They followed a 20-minute-speech in which Boehner laid out his five-point plan to jump-start Americas economy.
The AEI address served as the GOPs closing argument before the November midterm elections and came just as the House was wrapping up its final day of votes before sprinting to the campaign trail.
Boehner didnt offer many surprises in his speech: He called for fixing the U.S. tax code, cutting spending, reforming the legal system, reining in federal regulations and boosting education.
And the Speaker said opening up more areas for oil exploration and building the Keystone XL pipeline would really get our economy humming.
We do these five things in a meaningful way, along with the coming energy boom, we can reset the foundation of our economy for the next two or three generations and beyond, Boehner said.
Boehner argued that GOPs first priority should be tax reform. He said all the focus on so-called corporate inversions where U.S. corporations buy foreign companies and move their headquarters abroad to avoid taxes was short-sighted.
Inversions are really just visible symptoms of a much deeper problem: our tax code is terrible. No one understands it, certainly not the IRS, Boehner said. So all this talk about inversions is just making the problem smaller.
Its fussing over a divot when the road is loaded with potholes.
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Im delighted to report that yesterday the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals handed down Ex parte Thompson (Tex. Ct. Crim. App. Sept. 17, 2014) (8-to-1, with Judge Meyers dissenting without opinion). This was a UCLA First Amendment Amicus Brief Clinic case, in which my student Samantha Booth and I wrote an amicus brief on behalf of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. (Many thanks again, by the way, to Cam Barker (YetterColeman LLP) for all his help as local counsel.)
The courts opinion is a victory for the right to take photographs in public even when a statute barring such photograph is limited to photography of people without their consent and with intent to arouse or gratify sexual desire, but of course equally when the photographs lack such an intention. The court struck down the Texas improper photography statute, which read,
A person commits an offense if the person:
(1) photographs or by videotape or other electronic means records a visual image of another at a location that is not a bathroom or private dressing room:
(A) without the other persons consent; and
(B) with intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person.
Heres a quick summary of the courts reasoning:
1. Taking photographs in public places is generally constitutionally protected, because photographs regardless of their artistic merits are generally protected expression, and the act that creates the end product is likewise protected:
The camera is essentially the photographers pen or paintbrush. Using a camera to create a photograph or video is like applying pen to paper to create a writing or applying brush to canvas to create a painting. In all of these situations, the process of creating the end product cannot reasonably be separated from the end product for First Amendment purposes. This is a situation where the regulation of a medium inevitably affects communication itself. We conclude that a persons purposeful creation of photographs and visual recordings is entitled to the same First Amendment protection as the photographs and visual recordings themselves.
2. This First-Amendment-protected conduct doesnt lose its protection even when the photographer is intending to arouse or gratify sexual desires:
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Volokh Conspiracy: Texas highest criminal court strikes down improper photography statute