I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
The United States Department of Justice may file suit over Arizona’s controversial immigration law as soon as today, The Washington Post reports, citing three law enforcement sources. The Post reported that the lawsuit “will invoke for its main argument the legal doctrine of ‘preemption,’ which is based on the Constitution’s supremacy clause and says that federal law trumps state statutes. Justice Department officials believe that enforcing immigration laws is a federal responsibility, the sources said.”
This the argument Karl Manheim of Loyola Law School in Los Angeles said would be used when asked about the law shortly after it passed the state legislature. Manheim told the Wall Street Journal, “States have no power to pass immigration laws because it’s an attribute of foreign affairs. Just as states can’t have their own foreign policies or enter into treaties, they can’t have their own immigration laws either.”
