Posted Jun 18, 2010, 2:48 pm
Saying he wants to avoid a costly court battle with Gov. Jan Brewer, state Attorney General Terry Goddard will withdraw as Arizona's legal counsel in suits over SB 1070 and HB 2162.
Goddard sent a letter to Brewer on Friday, notifying Brewer that he will not represent the state in defense of the controversial immigration bills.
He based his decision on a June 14 letter from Brewer "that made clear her unwillingness to work cooperatively with the Attorney General's Office in defending the immigration bills," Goddard said in a press release.
Brewer's letter to Goddard asked him to step aside from defending the new immigration law, which takes effect July 29.
"It is unfortunate that you have chosen to reject that cooperative effort and seek to score partisan political points by threatening to challenge my authority as Attorney General to defend our State in court," Goddard wrote to Brewer.
"I am duty-bound to put my client - the State of Arizona - first," Goddard told Brewer in the letter. "I am acting today to avoid a costly and highly disruptive legal showdown despite my belief that I would prevail in such a contest."
Both Goddard, a Democrat, and Brewer, a Republican, are seeking their parties' nomination for governor. Arizona's primary election is Aug. 24.
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@TUCSONSAM,
Ease up on the personal invective a bit, okay, Sam? Let’s have a lively debate, but also a respectful one.
Thanks!
@null
A independent+ a Tea Partier,Brither.
WELL YOU HAVE IT ALL COVERED DON’T YOU!
The Obama Admin has been around only 550 days,So it must be the Black Mans Fault,You so called Tea [****] are fools.You are being played by the GOP who can’t find votes so they play to your fears and to the “white man vote”
Brewer is a jerk looking to get into office,This state “AZ” has gone down the drain under the control of the GOP for the last 44 years! If you cloud the issues with hate and fear real Americans wont see how bad this state is.
As for SB 1070 if it gos thru what happens?
Do you know?
I think not.
1st if the illegal person fights it he/she is released,then they get a drivers lic, a green card to work an a ID if they are lucky the case gos before a Fed Judge in about 2 years so SB 1070 is a way to become a legal person in the view of state law.
See so this gos to show you Tea Party victims are sheep.
Oh one last thing it was Ronald Reagan who gave Amnesty to millions of people back in the day!
Who was Reagan? ohh ya the best GOP guy ever from Calif.
There will be a confrontation soon between Americans who want a halt to illegal immigration occupancy and the zealots who want open borders? NumbersUSA has all the answers to these question of those pandering to specific ethnic organizations, and wants you to keep subsidizing illegal aliens lives. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada has the followers who see nothing wrong, for you to keep unceasingly pay-out for illegal alien families who need urgent care in hospitals, education for their children and other welfare programs Our country is 13 Trillion dollars in debt, which is mostly owed to Communist China. We have about 15 million people slogging the streets for jobs, but their is estimated to be 8.5 million foreigners working on bogus ID and Social Security numbers employed. If you haven’t checked your Credit report lately, I suggest you do? My own Social Security number was compromised of all things by a person working for a Security Firm in Dallas, TX.
Apart from Sen. Reid who has to go, Pelosi in charge of our Homeland Security, Clinton, Holder, Morton, Boxer, Schumer and Graham are all set on—FORCING—through another financially crippling—AMNESTY. Now that this fury battle has been ignited by the Arizona SB 1070 police law, we must not let this controversial issue sink quietly beneath the oil situation in the Gulf. Governor Brewer is an upstanding patriotic American and doesn’t crawl to powerful influences of businesses who hire illegal aliens, ethnic caucuses and reams of other soft-brained idiots who want massive avalanches of people from South-North of the border or intentionally overstayed their visa.