PHOENIX -- Attorney General Terry Goddard says Friday that his office plans to withdraw as the state's lawyers in legal challenges to Arizona's new immigration law.He needs to resign. If he won't do the job he was elected to do, he needs to resign. Very simple.
That leaves Gov. Jan Brewer's attorneys to defend the law on the state's behalf.
The Republican governor and Democratic attorney general were in a dispute over whether Goddard should defend the state. Both are gubernatorial candidates.
Brewer complained that Goddard's criticism of the law raised doubts about his ability to defend it.
Goddard says his office has defended state laws in court during the past, even when he disagreed with the law. Goddard says Brewer's threat to have him removed would be an expensive fight for the state.
Brewer predicts the law will be upheld.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
AZ Attorney General Refuses to Do His Job
The job of the Attorney General (among other things) is to defend the state and its laws against lawsuits. Arione Attorney General Terry Goddard wants to be Governor and he doesn't think he'll get elected if he acts against the best wishes of the illegal immigrant lobby:
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Yes. I will be supporting Gov. Brewer!! An A.G.'S job is to enforce the laws given to him, he can't pick and choose.
Keith Mickle
Alabama
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