Eggs with a side of separation of powers
A Tucson restaurateur is challenging Arizona's cage-free egg mandate, and his case raises a question that reaches well past breakfast: who gets to make the law, unelected agencies or elected lawmakers?
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A Tucson restaurateur is challenging Arizona's cage-free egg mandate, and his case raises a question that reaches well past breakfast: who gets to make the law, unelected agencies or elected lawmakers?
Arizona state Senator John Kavanagh argues that U.S. immigration laws are both necessary and fair. His case rests on how those laws were made, through a democratic process, and on fairness to the immigrants who follow the rules and wait their turn.
On the country's 250th anniversary, Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick argues that four constitutional principles hold tyranny back: due process, federalism, free speech, and separation of powers. They only do their job, he writes, when we defend them even against the side we agree with.