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Harris-Perry holds ‘Was that racist?’ lightning round
Melissa Harris-Perry held a “Was that racist?” lightning round on her show with a panel of comedians, in a look back at some of the more questionable moments of 2012. The panelists started with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who said in January that she “felt a little bit threatened” in…
Jan Brewer: ‘I probably don’t believe’ climate change is man made
Republican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer recently lashed out at a reporter before her appearance at an energy conference, demanding to know “where in the hell” a question about climate change came from. Prior to her Saturday night speech on energy at the Western Governors’ Association, KTVK’s Dennis Welch wanted to…
ACLU sues to force Arizona to offer licenses to deferred-deportation immigrants
A class action lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and an alliance of immigration advocacy groups on Thursday will seek to force the state of Arizona to offer drivers licenses to young undocumented immigrants taking part in a federal deferred deportation program. The suit, (PDF) filed in a…
Obama’s DREAM Act-lite runs into more trouble as Nebraska, Arizona go rogue
Obama’s DREAM Act-lite runs into more trouble as Nebraska, Arizona go rogue (via The Christian Science Monitor) Two days after Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer declared her state won’t confer driver’s licenses and other state benefits to newly-documented immigrants under Obama’s “deferred action” immigration policy, Nebraska, too, put its foot down.…
AZ Dem: Gov. Brewer just ‘grandstanding’ with new immigration order
Arizona’s Governor Jan Brewer (R) issued an executive order on Wednesday containing a string of provisions designed to thwart President Barack Obama’s new immigration reforms (.pdf), which were announced in May, including the right of children of undocumented immigrants to receive work permits and pay taxes, as well as to…
Brewer takes victory lap: Arizona ‘vindicated’ by court gutting immigration law
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer appeared to be in near denial on Monday when she claimed her state had been “vindicated” after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a majority of the SB 1070 anti-immigration law. In a 5-4 ruling, the high court found that three out of four provisions of…
WATCH LIVE: Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer speaks on immigration ruling
Monday the Supreme Court gutted much of Arizona’s controversial anti-immigration law, SB 1070, also known as the “papers please” law. The Supreme Court upheld the law’s provision which allows law enforcement to check immigration status when stopped. In a statement, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said, “Today’s decision by the Supreme…
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer Sides With Debt Collectors
This is a capitally bad piece of legislation from a state that seems to be specializing in crap legislation as of late: Brewer signed House Bill 2664 into law today. The measure allows collection agencies to use final billing statements as a basis to show amounts owed and interest rates…
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Signs Bill that Defunds Planned Parenthood; WTF Arizona?!
I’ve got more bad news out of Arizona. But first, some background — just in case you haven’t been following the reproductive assault that is currently going on in Arizona. In mid-March, I wrote that Arizona was really close to defunding Planned Parenthood: The Arizona Senate Committee on Healthcare and…
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Signs Legislation Permitting Employers to Interrogate Female Employees About Contraception Use [Updated again]
A month or so ago, I wrote about a bill in Arizona (HB 2625) that would permit employers to opt-out of the so-called birth control mandate and interrogate their female employees about their sexual practices, all in the name of “religious freedom”: You see, if a female employee seeks a…
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