Get angry: Newly elected Arizona Rep. Raquel Teran is being sued because she's brown

[turbinetree]

Elvia Díaz

Arizona Republic Published 3:51 p.m. MT Nov. 9, 2018 | Updated 4:43 p.m. MT Nov. 9, 2018
Opinion: Newly elected Arizona Rep. Raquel Teran will win the lawsuit challenging her citizenship. But that's not the point.

Raquel Teran has nothing to worry about in the lawsuit challenging her U.S. citizenship, which was filed after she won a seat in the Arizona House of Representatives.

She was born in the U.S.

But that’s not the point.

The point – and the problem – is our political atmosphere where anyone can sue to question the legal status of non-white elected officials.

Alice Novoa, an anti-immigrant activist, has once again filed suit against Teran in Maricopa County Superior Court.

Teran, a Phoenix Democrat, has to show up in court with her U.S. birth certificate, like she did in 2012 when Novoa first challenged her.

“She’s fixated,” Teran told me Friday afternoon about Novoa, who didn’t return calls to Arizona Republic reporter Dustin Gardiner. “She knows I’m a freaking U.S. citizen.”

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/elviadiaz/2018/11/09/arizona-raquel-teran-being-sued-citizenship-brown/1947572002/

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Teran should be preparing to take office, to introduce legislation, to talk to her constituents.

Instead, she has to go to court, spend money defending herself and otherwise waste time with a unhinged anti-immigrant activist.

Teran is right to speak up. Nobody should be harassed just because of the color of his or her skin or how they speak.

Anyone who has an ounce of decency and common sense should speak up and say enough. ¡Ya basta! (That means stop.

[guillaumeb]

1. Perhaps she should counter sue,and ask for damages.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. I'm afraid we still dont get it, not really.

The right is using the courts to do their racism ONLY because at the moment they would probably get arrested if they started shooting.

The INSTANT the traitor gives them the signal they can shoot and will not be arrested, they will do just that.

[GulfCoast66]

5. Pretty sure my local LEOs will arrest, or kill anyone shooting

Regardless of what trump says.

We have no national police force.

Not even going to expound on how many liberals are armed. Or how many republicans would be horrified at the prospect.

[revmclaren]

8. Last time I checked

the percentage of liberal households owning at least one firearm was about 35%. And that was before tRump took office. The deplorables really don't want things to get violent IMHO.



Only! 2019 and beyond.

[GulfCoast66]

11. Yeah, but I really don't like even discussing this idea

Too Operation Jade Helmish if you know what I mean.

Our Federalist system is not all that Democratic in a small d meaning. But it makes it pretty well impossible for a modern day Napoleon. Especially when the most populated and wealthiest states are hard blue or at least purple.

Governors have tremendous power compared to their counterparts in most other countries.

[UTUSN]

3. There's got to be a.point where the absurdity stops the laughter.

[OnDoutside]

4. Can she sue her for harassment ?

[elmac]

6. hmmm

[Gothmog]

7. This is a bogus lawsuit

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. I think "frivolous" is the legal term of art

[TeamPooka]

9. She should countersue for harassment since she's already gone through this with this person in the p

[struggle4progress]

10. I hope Teran's lawyer can counter-file a frivolous lawsuit complaint

[Sanity Claws]

12. If she did it before, then the prior judgment applies. Res judicata

[KWR65]

14. Don't worry the judge can make the plaintiff pay the Rep's legal bills

This is a frivolous lawsuit.