SHOT: California’s Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye letter to Dept of Homeland Security (emphasis mine):
As officers of the court, we judges uphold the constitutions of both the United States and California, and the executive branch does the same by ensuring that our laws are fairly and safely enforced. But enforcement policies that include stalking courthouses and arresting undocumented immigrants, the vast majority of whom pose no risk to public safety, are neither safe nor fair. They not only compromise our core value of fairness but they undermine the judiciary’s ability to provide equal access to justice. I respectfully request that you refrain from this sort of enforcement in California’s courthouses.
CHASER: DHS Secretary John Kelly(and USMC General) on “sanctuaries” and, ahem, courthouses (emphasis mine):
“The best place for us to pick up these illegal criminals is in jails and prisons. It is inconceivable to me that an elected official at any level would prefer these types of men and women to be released into the community…Sheriffs and police departments “want to cooperate with us and turn these people over that are in the jails.”
“If they don’t do that, we have to go into neighborhoods. We have to go into courthouses. We have to go where we can find them and apprehend them.”
These illegal aliens that are being picked up have broken our immigration law and the Chief Justice knows this but is obviously willing to skirt the law and enable illegal behavior because OPEN BORDERS! She can request all she want but there is no law that protects her “fiefdom” that her letter may imply. Kelly is right in the same way that Willy Sutton was right when asked why he robbed banks:
“I rob banks because that’s where the money is”
Kelly is the new sheriff in town and he will go into court rooms because “that’s where the criminal illegal aliens is”. And his response is the correct response and the Chief Justice is flat out wrong. The law is the law and she is there to enforce it. By calling DHS actions “neither safe nor fair”, she is deviating WIDELY and WILDLY from the precepts she is sworn to uphold. Instead, she shows her Progressive leaning feelz by telling Law Enforcement to buzz off.
Kelly was restrained. More and more my answer would fall into a short, curt, response containing the letters “ou” and “F” simply because the Left won’t take a polite “no” for an answer. The Left has politicized everything – turnabout fair play. Kelly is living up “to his book” while Cantil-Sakauye has seemingly shoved her’s into the deepest, darkest, and dustiest shelf she could find.
(H/T: RedState)
