The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case Maricopa County v. Lopez-Valenzuela which overturns an Arizona referendum law denying bail for illegal aliens who are jailed for serious felonies.
The law, approved by a whopping 78% of Arizona voters, denied bail for illegal immigrants “if the proof is evident or the presumption great that the person is guilty of the offense charged.”
Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia, the court’s three most conservative members, would have agreed to hear the case.
“Our indifference to cases such as this one will only embolden the lower courts to reject state laws on questionable constitutional grounds,” Thomas wrote.
The law was upheld at three earlier state and federal courts under a 2003 Supreme court precedent which allowed illegal aliens to be classified as extreme flight risks.
However, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reached back to a 1984 law which only allowed pre-trial detention on a case-by-case basis and overturned the Arizona law. Missouri and Alabama also have a similar law which is now destroyed.
Then if it is overturned that they can’t bail them out then just set the bail so high that they can’t afford it!
one if the defendant cannot prove american citizenship the are a definite flight risk as they have no ties to the community
States are to have the final say, not the federal courts. This is unconstitutional to say the least!
say it again my brother
I am a female
my bad ,way u had ur name spelled I thought u was a guy but im sorry…if u was here I buy u a brew happy forth of july god bless the u.s.a..
way u say something u aint shy u get to the point. for a female.,.I like that
true so true but look who your talking about..