Over the past few decades, the GOP has given us plenty of reasons to shake our heads and say, “What are they thinking?” Lately their ideas have been as bad as ever, but their tendency to double down on stupid has gotten worse.
This week, not long after the Supreme Court struck down the majority of Arizona’s SB 1070 racial profiling law, the GOP included a plank in the party platform that says unconstitutional laws like this should be “encouraged, not attacked." The platform calls on the government of the United States to drop legal challenges to these laws. Power-hungry Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, SB 1070's biggest fan, is speaking at the GOP Convention in Tampa, which tells you a lot.
What part of unconstitutional don’t they understand? Let's review what's happening -- and what we can do about it.
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