{"id":4584,"date":"2014-01-14T13:24:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T20:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=4584"},"modified":"2014-01-14T13:30:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T20:30:22","slug":"california-lawyers-citizenship-we-dont-need-no-stinkin-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/01\/14\/california-lawyers-citizenship-we-dont-need-no-stinkin-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"California Lawyers: Citizenship? We Don&#8217;t Need No Stinkin&#8217; Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A man who came to California <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/367549\/practicing-law-while-illegal-mark-krikorian\" target=\"_blank\">illegally<\/a> from Mexico has been granted the right to practice law, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/03\/us\/immigrant-in-us-illegally-may-practice-law-california-court-rules.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">despite the fact<\/a> that &#8220;under federal law, no law firm, business or public agency can legally hire him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4585\" title=\"Meanwhile... In a California Courthouse\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/stinkin_citizenship.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/stinkin_citizenship.jpg 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/stinkin_citizenship-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This is just another example of eliminating the distinction between citizens and non-citizens.\u00a0 Already, the California <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Grand Soviet<\/span> Legislature passed <a title=\"Whither Citizenship?\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/04\/30\/whither-citizenship\/\" target=\"_blank\">a bill to give non-citizens the right to sit on juries<\/a>, and thus in judgment of others, including citizens.\u00a0 Thankfully, that bill was <a title=\"A Stopped Clock in California\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/10\/15\/a-stopped-clock-in-california\/\" target=\"_blank\">vetoed<\/a>\u2026 this time.\u00a0 Aside from voting, <a title=\"When Citizenship Looses Meaning\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/06\/04\/when-citizenship-looses-meaning\/\" target=\"_blank\">for now at least<\/a>, only the right to hold office serves to distinguish a citizen as a member of this body politic, society, and country. Unsurprisingly, then, he wants to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2014\/01\/08\/America-s-First-Illegal-Immigrant-Lawyer-May-Run-For-California-Governor\" target=\"_blank\">run for Governor<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ultimately this is just a stepping stone to abolish not only the distinction between legal and non-legal alien, but to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/03\/us\/immigrant-in-us-illegally-may-practice-law-california-court-rules.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">abolish any distinction<\/a> between citizen and non-citizen.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The court went on to suggest that immigration status should not be considered any differently from, say, race or religion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;&#8216;We conclude that the fact that an undocumented immigrant&#8217;s presence in this country violates federal statutes is not itself a sufficient or persuasive basis for denying undocumented immigrants, as a class, admission to the state bar,&#8217; [California Supreme Court] Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye wrote in her opinion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This is the Progressive view:\u00a0 That &#8220;America&#8221; is just whoever, without restriction, happens to be wandering around in a certain geographical location at a certain time.\u00a0 Our <a title=\"The Civic Basis of Our National Heritage\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/06\/17\/the-civic-basis-of-our-national-heritage\/\" target=\"_blank\">civic heritage<\/a> is tosses aside, and Berthold Brecht&#8217;s humorous poem &#8220;<a title=\"Nevada Legislator Channels Bertold Brecht\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/02\/21\/nevada-legislator-channels-bertold-brecht\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Solution<\/a>&#8221; becomes the law of the land.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A man who came to California illegally from Mexico has been granted the right to practice law, despite the fact that &#8220;under federal law, no law firm, business or public agency can legally hire him.&#8221; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This is just another example &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/01\/14\/california-lawyers-citizenship-we-dont-need-no-stinkin-citizenship\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[24,48],"class_list":["post-4584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-leviathan","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4584"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4650,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584\/revisions\/4650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}