Fmr Justice Sandra Day O'Connor speaks out against boycotting Arizona but criticizes SB1070

[alp227]

Former Supreme Court Justice and Arizona native Sandra Day O'Connor offered some modest criticism of her home state's new immigration law Monday, but counseled a San Francisco audience, "Don't boycott us."

In a question-and-answer session after a speech to alumni at St. Ignatius College Preparatory School - from which her late husband, John, graduated in 1947 - O'Connor avoided passing legal judgment on the far-reaching law, which would make it a crime for immigrants to be in Arizona without valid residency papers.

Still, she said, Arizona "may have gone a little too far in its authority, in encouraging local law enforcement officers to take action" against anyone they reasonably suspect of being an illegal immigrant.

Opponents say the provision invites racial profiling.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/05/04/BA2N1D9042.DTL

[w4rma]

1. She is such a wimp. (nt)

[NNadir]

2. Who cares what she thinks? She didn't give a rat's ass about decency when she was on the court,

and hardly is an arbiter of it now.

[onehandle]

3. Retirement means SHUT THE HELL UP.

In your case.

[FrenchieCat]

4. She gave us Bush.....

So I don't want to hear about what she has to say now!