"Will immigration law continue to be governed by national interest," he said, "or will the court allow every state and locality to intrude in immigration policy and assert local biases and prejudices?" Arizona's supporters say the state is well within its rights to enact a measure that they say would help, not hinder, federal agents.
The first targets are likely to be ethnic republics whose constitutions assert local sovereignty: Dagestan, Ingushetia, North Ossetia, Bashkortostan, Komi, Kabardin-Balkaria, Tatarstan, Tuva and Yakutia.
And it claims "any asserted local benefit of the Ordinance's residency restriction and Hosting Platform rules is outweighed by the substantial burdens they impose on interstate commerce" and as a result it violates the Constitution's commerce clause.
Grosso said he just wants the District to be able to assert local control.
Spurred on by their residents, the mayor and council of Plympton-Wyoming take on both energy giant Suncor and Ontario's controversial Green Energy Act tomorrow in a David-and-Goliath battle to assert local control over the locations and numbers of wind turbines to be built.
Bellamy's proposal was presented to Summit attendees in the form of a 50-page white paper entitled, "The Young Face of NEPAD" – a reference to the New Partnership for African Development, a movement founded last year by African leaders seeking to assert local accountability for the continent's destiny.
They said they doubted that the typical not-in-my-backyard complaints were genuine, asserting that local politicians simply did not want a prominent mosque in Simferopol.
Last August, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg wrote to Robert M. Groves, the director of the Census Bureau, asserting that local census workers responsible for Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Astoria and Jackson Heights had "erroneously classified large numbers of housing units as vacant".
Here, recognition of local gods as alternative authorities to the state asserts Tibetan local autonomy and cultural identity, and also defines communal territory where Tibetans reclaimed authority in the face of perceived government failure to define boundaries and protect a livelihood source now intimately tied to rural Tibetan lives.
As mayor of Las Condes, a wealthy community that is part of metropolitan Santiago, Mr. Lavín put local code enforcement officials in patrol cars with the national police to assert some local control.
