U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has affirmed a lower court ruling against infamous birther Sheriff Joe Arpaio who filed a lawsuit challenging President Obama's executive orders on immigration.
Like many other lawsuits against the Obama administration and the president's policies that have been rejected, Joe Arpaio was unable to demonstrate injury according to Judge Nina Pillard.
"We conclude that Sheriff Arpaio has failed to allege an injury that is both fairly traceable to the deferred action policies and redressable by enjoining them, as our standing precedents require," Pillard wrote. "His allegations that the policies will cause more crime in Maricopa County are unduly speculative. Projected increases he anticipates in the county’s policing burden and jail population rest on chains of supposition and contradict acknowledged realities." [...]
"Even were we to ignore the disconnect between the challenged policies and the increased law enforcement expenditures that Sheriff Arpaio predicts, his reliance on the anticipated action of unrelated third parties makes it considerably harder to show the causation required to support standing," Pillard wrote.
In other words, Sheriff Joe cannot sue for injuries that haven't happened yet and may not ever happen.
The birther posse honcho is currently facing possible contempt of federal court for failing to obey orders to cease a long-running campaign of racial profiling in his jurisdiction of Maricopa County.