brought here illegally as children. a policy that has nothing to do with the arizona case. the president said at a news conference that the new program is the right thing to do in light of congress s failure to pass the administration s proposed revision of the immigration act. perhaps it is, though, arizona may not think so. at salon.com describes it, it s a passage written by a man who obviously no longer cares that he sounds increasingly like a right wing talk show radio host rather than a justice of the supreme court. it s nose surprise that none other than rush limbaugh jumped to scalia s dufs earlier. he s so right on the muchone. all arizona did was write law that mirrors law that obama was not enforcing, and the court told them today they can t do that. it is, it s disheartening.
that was a special one. and said there could be no precedent. so we ve got a lot of history of scalia doing this. but this was the worst. michael medved, did scalia embarrass the court on this one? i don t think scalia embarrassed the court. what he was doing to an extent was stepping beyond a normal judicial role, but remember, the president of the united states, when he had the justices in front of him at a state of the union address, also went way over the line in attacking the supreme court in a state of the union address. i wish the entire process could be less politicized. attacking? he gave an opinion. he said he was worried about the he wasn t attacking them. he attacked the ruling. look. the job of the president whether he likes the ruling or not, is to say this is the law, i will enforce it. it is not to give his opinion. as a former instructor in constitutional law. you re willing to say that scalia went beyond? this is a very unusual that could be an activis
you like it or not. most latinos do. joining me tonight is congressman raul grijalva of arizona who is also the co-chair of the progressive caucus. i appreciate your time. thank you, ed. i appreciate you having me here. this is such an important issue for the country because if we don t get this right, where do we move from here? what does the next generation do? i want to start with the arizona law. and this ruling by the supreme court. it still says racial profiling is going to happen and it doesn t do anything to curb that. are you troubled by that? no, i think that s a poison aspect of the decision. it leaves open the possibilities for persons like joe arpaio in my state who sees that as no consequence and civil liberties and civil rights as no consequence, so that s why he s in court, to abuse that police authority that local officials have.
what do you think their response is going to be? to this supreme court ruling? where do you think they ll go from here? the brakes have been put on in the fact they can preempt the federal government immigration law. the brakes have not been put on in terms of that section which empowers local law enforcement. i hope those states realize this is about due process and the 14th amendment. they should wait for all those issues to be clarified before they turn loose an agenda that is only going to further divide and economically hurt the states that have similar laws like arizona. congressman, good to have you with us tonight, thanks so much. remember to answer tonight s question at the bottom of the screen, share you thoughts on twitter @edshow. we love it when you do that. the other major supreme court case today could literally cripple democracy in this country. that s what i believe. we re going to look at citizens united part two. that s what it is. montana governor brian schw
theorists on the supreme court telling a state that s had a system that s worked for 100 years, they ve got to cast it aside because it doesn t fit with their theory. that s a terrible idea. and it s totally against conservative principles, conservatives are supposed to rely on practical local experience. this is a radical court doing a radical thing. radical court for sure. here s the white house statement. citizens united was wrong when it was decided and as two supreme court justices have observed since, independent expenditures by corporations are threatening the health of our democracy. unfortunately, the court today missed an opportunity to correct that mistake. this is kind of a wake-up call to america. if we as a people believe that all voices should be heard in a fair debate, then we should stand up and do something about this. the obama administration is positioned in history to make a