Arizona sets up defense fund to help with federal lawsuit costs

The Air Support unit provides invaluable assistance to Border Patrol Officers on the ground for both operations and rescue. [Photo by Gerald L. Nino, US-CPB.]Arizona has set up a defense fund to help with costs of the federal lawsuit President Barack Obama’s administration has filed against the state. In an official announcement, Gov. Jan Brewer said proceeds from the fund will be used “to pay the substantial legal fees that Arizona has been, and will be, forced to incur as a result of all of these lawsuits.”

States are paying closer attention to the Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution.

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Lawsuit against Arizona may be federal disclosure nightmare

Updated on Monday, June 21, 2010 at 12:59PM by Kay B. Day, Editor

by Kay B. Day

A Customs and Border Patrol officer negotiates an arrest after being sprayed with OC [pepper spray] in a training exercise simulating real events. [Photo by Gerald L. Nino, CBP]If the Obama administration does file the lawsuit officials have announced in response to Arizona's immigration law, it may actually work on behalf of US citizens.

Gov. Jan Brewer (R-Ariz.) is taking a ‘bring it on’ approach about rumors swirling around a federal government lawsuit against her state. Ironically the federal lawsuit challenging Arizona’s state immigration law could prove to be a disclosure nightmare for the feds. For example, a recent conversation Sen. John Kyl (R-Ariz.) disclosed is an example of President Barack Obama placing politics over the US Constitution.

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