{"id":30004,"date":"2011-12-23T03:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T03:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/judge_halts_part_of_south_carolina_immigration_law\/"},"modified":"2011-12-23T03:00:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T03:00:03","slug":"judge_halts_part_of_south_carolina_immigration_law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30004","title":{"rendered":"(Politico) Judge halts part of South Carolina immigration law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge blocked several parts of South Carolina\u2019s immigration law Thursday, saying in his ruling that the measure tramples on federal powers.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel granted a preliminary injunction, according to The Associated Press and Reuters, ruling that the federal government has the sole constitutional authority to set immigration policy and regulate enforcement. Gergel said parts of South Carolina\u2019s law are in violation of those powers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1211\/70789.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge blocked several parts of South Carolina\u2019s immigration law Thursday, saying in his ruling that the measure tramples on federal powers. U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel granted a preliminary injunction, according to The Associated Press and Reuters, ruling<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30004\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,54,147,114,151,619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-immigration","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-state-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}