NV federal judge strikes down main anti-immigrant statute as unconstitutional violation of 5AEP

[Dereich]

This decision is absolutely nuts. The idea that a lone federal judge can arbitrate whether Congress has been sufficiently contrite in apologizing for the perceived racial animus of a old law to allow that law to continue to exist is the craziest thing I've heard since Trump was banned from Twitter. And by "apologize" the court specifically says that Congress would have had to change the function of the law for her to consider it cleansed. Other Congresses reviewing and amending the law (to make it stronger) were irrelevant because they apparently did so without addressing that prior legislators were racist. I could not imagine a more flagrant example of legislating from the bench if I tried.